Edward Gibbon and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

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Introduction / Myron Gilmore

Edward Gibbon: the historian of the Roman empire / David P. Jordan

Gibbon: the formation of mind and character / Martine Watson Brownley

Gibbon on civil war and rebellion in the decline of the Roman empire / G.W. Bowersock

Gibbon's views on culture and society in the fifth and sixth centuries / Peter Brown

Gibbon and Byzantium / Steven Runciman

Gibbon on Muhammad / Bernard Lewis

Gibbon from an Italian point of view / Arnaldo Momigliano

Tradition and experience: the idea of decline from Bruni to Gibbon / Peter Burke

Between Machiavelli and Hume: Gibbon as civic humanist and philosophical historian / J.G.A. Pocock

Edward Gibbon: contraria sunt complementa / Stephen R. Graubard

From the decline of erudition to the decline of nations: Gibbon's response to French thought / Jean Starobinski

Civilization and barbarism in Gibbon's history / François Furet

Edward Gibbon: historien-philosophe / Frank E. Manuel

Gibbon's humor / John Clive

Gibbon and the history of art / Francis Haskell. The impact of French literature on Gibbon / Robert Shackleton

Gibbon and the church historians / Owen Chadwick

Toward the Decline and fall: Gibbon's other historical interests / Giuseppe Giarrizzo

With Gibbon in Puerto Rico / Reuben A. Brower