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  • Volume 6: Barbarism: Triumph in the West
  • J. G. A. Pocock, The Johns Hopkins University
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781316134542
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316134542
Subjects:
Political Theory, History, Politics and International Relations, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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Book description

This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west. It makes two general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of narratives, written on diverse premises and never fully synthesized with one another; and second, that these chapters assert a progress of both barbarism and religion from east to west, leaving much history behind as they do so. The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Barbarism: Triumph in the West represents the culmination of a remarkable attempt to discover and present what Gibbon was saying, what he meant by it, and why he said it in the ways that he did, as well as an unparalleled contribution to the historiography of Enlightened Europe.

Awards

Joint Winner, 2015 István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History

Reviews

'By uniting civil with ecclesiastical histories, and by describing narratives of antiquity created by, and in a world on the brink of, revolutionary change, Pocock concludes his sixth volume in scholarly territory initially explored by the pioneering work of Arnaldo Momigliano and Franco Venturi, to both of whom the first volume of Barbarism and Religion was dedicated. In his end is his beginning; where Pocock's uniquely authoritative contribution to historical scholarship magisterially concludes, that of many others will surely follow.'

B. W. Young Source: The English Historical Review

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References

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