The Empire Unpossess'd

An Essay on Gibbon's Decline and Fall

Lionel Gossman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th May '81

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One of a small number of historical texts that have become classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant to the classics of fictional literature. In Lionel Gossman's thematic and rhetorical study of Gibbon's masterpiece, the foundation of authority is seen as the historian's chief concern. The central problem of the work - the foundation of political authority - also appears in another form, Gossman contends, as a central problem of the work - that of the authority of the historical text itself.

ISBN: 9780521234535

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 450g

190 pages