{"product_id":"barbarism-and-religion-volume-6-barbarism-triumph-in-the-west-hardback-9781107091467","title":"Barbarism and Religion: Volume 6, Barbarism: Triumph in the West (Hardback) 9781107091467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBarbarism and Religion: Volume 6, Barbarism: Triumph in the West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. G. A. Pocock (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107091467, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e539 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.99 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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, The English Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Constantinian Empire: 1. Constantinople: a new city and a new history\u003cbr\u003e 2. Constantine to Julian: the disintegration of a dynasty\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Church in the Empire: 3. Constantine's second revolution\u003cbr\u003e 4. Theology and the problems of authority\u003cbr\u003e 5. Nicaea and its aftermath\u003cbr\u003e 6. The reign of Constantius and the Arian triumph\u003cbr\u003e 7. The structure of chapter 21\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Interlude of Julian: 8. Gibbon and Julian: the history of an anomaly\u003cbr\u003e 9. Julian apostate: the failure of an alternative\u003cbr\u003e 10. Julian as persecutor: from toleration to the failure of repression\u003cbr\u003e 11. The sojourn at Antioch and the Persian disaster\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Barbarism: The First Catastrophe: 12. Valentinian I and Valens: the turn to the west\u003cbr\u003e 13. The geography and history of the western Decline and Fall\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Triumph of Orthodoxy and the Last Emperor: 14. The reign of Theodosius: triumphs preceding disaster\u003cbr\u003e 15. Ambrose of Milan: the church and the empire\u003cbr\u003e 16. Theodosius narrated and re-narrated: the death and rebirth of polytheism\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. The Barbarisation of the West\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Gothic phase: the sack of Rome and the loss of the transalpine west\u003cbr\u003e 18. Vandals and Huns: the twin empires and the loss of Africa\u003cbr\u003e 19. Attila and Aetius: the Hun invasions of the west\u003cbr\u003e 20. The end of the western succession\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. After the Fall: Towards a History Not Written: 21. Ends and beginnings: the conclusion of Gibbon's third volume\u003cbr\u003e 22. The barbarian kingdoms and their laws: the beginnings of a mediaeval history\u003cbr\u003e 23. The general observations\u003cbr\u003e 24. Gibbon's first trilogy and its successor volumes\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion of the present series\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], History: theory \u0026amp; methods [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History: theory \u0026amp; methods\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History:%20theory%20\u0026amp;%20methods%20%5BHBA%5D%22\"\u003eHBA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913085378840,"sku":"9781107091467","price":114.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107091467i_404423f7-88df-4b10-9eab-d730e8aa1fae.jpg?v=1696792108","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/barbarism-and-religion-volume-6-barbarism-triumph-in-the-west-hardback-9781107091467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}