The Ironist
J.G.A. Pocock: Gibbon under Fire, 14 November 2002
Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and His Reputation 1776-1815
by David Womersley.
Oxford, 452 pp., £65, January 2002,0 19 818733 5 Show More
by David Womersley.
Oxford, 452 pp., £65, January 2002,
“... Momigliano’s ‘Gibbon’s Contribution to Historical Method’, and Giuseppe Giarrizzo’s Edward Gibbon e la cultura europea del Settecento, the historian of the Roman Empire has himself become the object of serious historical study. It can still be maintained that his work is, in D.R. Woolf’s words, ‘probably the most famous and perhaps the most ... ”