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The Empire Unpossess'd: An Essay on Gibbon's Decline and Fall

The Empire Unpossess'd: An Essay on Gibbon's Decline and Fall

Gossman, Lionel
Lionel, Gossman

Paperback

Ancient RomeGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521103452
ISBN13: 9780521103459
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 11 2008
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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