Author: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
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Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Royal Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Edward Gibbon
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire, his understanding of monarchy and the balance of power, his sources and working methods, the structure of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, his attitude towards the barbarians, the contrasting treatments of the eastern and western Empire, his appreciation of past civilizations and their material remains, his audience and their reactions - contemporary and Victorian - are considered in the light of the latest research on eighteenth-century intellectual history on the one hand and on late antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages on the other. The book breaks new ground in taking the form of a dialogue between experts on the fields about which Gibbon himself wrote, and eighteenth-century intellectual historians.

Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Author: B.W. Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199256225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Exploring the Victorian fascination with the generation of their grandparents and great-grandparents, Brian Young illuminates Victorian intellectual, religious, and cultural history. Examining the work of men such as Thomas Carlyle, the book reveals how the Victorians were haunted by the eighteenth century, both metaphorically and literally.

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Languages : en
Pages : 286

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From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.

Author: Norman Vance
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631180761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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THE VICTORIANS & ANCIENT ROME Norman Vance has written the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome. His comprehensive account shows how not only scholars and poets but also engineers, soldiers, scientists and politicians gained inspiration from the writing, theory and practice of their Roman predecessors. The Roman theme is traced in nineteenth-century painting and music as well as literature and political discussion. There are chapters on the imaginative influence throughout the nineteenth century of five major Roman poets, framed by other chapters on Rome and European revolutions, nineteenth-century versions of Roman history, fictions of Rome, imperialism and decadence. Attention is also paid to the influence of developments in archaeology both at Rome and Pompeii and at Romano-British sites. Professor Vance provides a fascinating account of the sense of connection Victorian Britain felt with the Roman experience, a connection made the more complex because Britain had once been a Roman colony and because Christianity took hold and spread under the Roman Empire.

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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.