Edward Gibbon

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself
Herausgeber: Holroyd, John Baker

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Produktbeschreibung

On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Volume 2 contains abstracts from Gibbon's reading, with his reflections on what he read, and extracts from his journal (sometimes in French, with a parallel translation), short pieces on various aspects of Roman history, an outline of his planned history of the world from the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century, literary criticism, a history of the House of Brunswick (ancestors of the Hanoverian British royal family), and a riposte to a criticism of his own great work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which is also reissued (in the 1896-1900 edition by J. B. Bury) in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1884g
• ISBN-13: 9781108072175
• ISBN-10: 1108072178
• Artikelnr.: 40546698

Autorenporträt

Edward Gibbon was a member of the English parliament, a historian, and a writer. On May 8, 1737, he was born, and on January 16, 1794, he died. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, came out in six parts between 1776 and 1788. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, the way it uses first-hand sources, and the way it criticizes organized religion in a polemical way. After getting sick in 1752, Gibbon went to Bath to get better. When he was 15, his father sent him to Oxford to study as a gentleman commoner at Magdalen College. But he didn't fit in well at college, and he later said that the 14 months he spent there were the "most useless and unprofitable" of his life. He lived in Lausanne for five years and read works by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, and Blaise Pascal. He also traveled around Switzerland to study the constitutions of its cantons.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Abstract of the books Mr Gibbon read, with reflections
2. Extracts from his journal
3. A collection of his remarks, and detached pieces, on different subjects
4. Outlines of the history of the world
5. Essai sur l'étude de la littérature
6. Critical observations on the design of the sixth book of the Aeneid
7. A dissertation on the subject of 'L'homme au masque de fer'
8. Mémoire justicatif pour servir de réponse
9. A vindication of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
10. Antiquities of the house of Brunswick
11. An address
Index.