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Summer 1976

Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Edward Gibbon: The Historian of the Roman Empire

David P. Jordan


Gibbon: The Formation of Mind and Character

Martine Watson Brownley


Gibbon’s Humor

John Clive


The Impact of French Literature on Gibbon

Robert Shackleton


Toward the Decline and Fall: Gibbon’s Other Historical Interests

Giuseppe Giarrizzo


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 on Muhammad

Bernard Lewis


Gibbon and Byzantium

Steven Runciman


Gibbon and the Church Historians

Owen Chadwick


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


Gibbon and the History of Art

Francis Haskell


Edward Gibbon: Historien-Philosophe

Frank E. Manuel


With Gibbon in Puerto Rico

Reuben A. Brower