The transformation of the Roman world : Gibbon's problem after two centuries /

The transformation of the Roman world : Gibbon's problem after two centuries /

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Main Author: White, Lynn Townsend, 1907-1987 (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1966.

Series: Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; 3.

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward, > 1737-1794. > History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. > Historiography.

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Call Number: DG311 .W58 1966

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction :
  • Gibbon and the Enlightenment /
  • Andrew Lossky
  • The crisis of the third century /
  • Mortimer Chambers
  • The impact of Christianity /
  • Gerhart B. Ladner
  • Hellas resurgent /
  • Speros Vryonis, Jr.
  • Autonomy versus unity in the Christian East /
  • Miriam Lichtheim
  • Islam : the problem of changing perspective /
  • G.E. von Grunebaum
  • Twilight in the West /
  • C. Warren Hollister
  • The continuity and preservation of the Latin tradition /
  • Philip Levine
  • Celt and Teuton /
  • Jeffrey B. Russell
  • Mutations in art /
  • Albert Hoxie
  • Conclusion :
  • The Temple of Jupiter revisited /
  • Lynn White, Jr.