Barbarism and Religion, Volumen2

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Cambridge University Press, 2001 M04 2 - 440 páginas
The second volume of Barbarism and Religion explores the historiography of Enlightenment, and looks at Gibbon's intellectual relationship with writers sucah as Giannone, Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Ferguson and Adam Smith. Edward Gibbon's intellectual trajectory is both similar but at points crucially distinct from the dominant Latin "Enlightened narrative" these thinkers developed. The interaction of philosophy, erudition and narrative is central to enlightened historiography, and John Pocock again shows how the Decline and Fall is both akin to but distinct from the historiographical context within which Gibbon wrote his great work.

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THE VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY
7
CONSTRUCTING THE ENLIGHTENED NARRATIVE
27
GIANNONE JURIST AND LIBERTIN IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
29
Popes and emperors from the Isaurians to the Hohenstaufen
42
Angevins Spaniards and Gallicans to the brink of Enlightenment
58
Gibbon and Giannone narrative philosophy erudition
65
VOLTAIRE NEOCLASSICIST AND PHILOSOPHE IN THE ENLIGHTENED WORLDPICTURE
72
Courtly monarchy as instrument of Enlightenment the Siecle de Louis XIV
83
WILLIAM ROBERTSON AND THE HISTORY OF EUROPE
258
Scotland and the progress of society
268
The Reign of Charles V and the emergence of the European states
289
Robertson histories written and unwritten
300
THE PROGRESS OF CIVIL SOCIETY
307
ADAM SMITH JURISPRUDENCE INTO HISTORY
309
Smiths Glasgow lectures narrative and philosophical history
319
ADAM FERGUSON THE MODERATE AS MACHIAVELLIAN
330

Asia and the dechristianisation of history the Siecle and the Essai sur les Moeurs
97
The Christian millennium in Europe the Essai sur les Moeurs
120
The recovery of civil government the rebirth of fanaticism and the return to the Siecle
137
Voltaire the exasperating predecessor
153
THE HISTORICAL AGE AND THE HISTORICAL NATION
161
DAVID HUME AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
163
David Hume the Essays as contemporary history
177
The History of Great Britain Humes modern history
199
England under the House of Tudor monarchy Europe and enthusiasm
222
Humes History of England the Enlightened narrative in retrospect
241
The Memoires litteraires and the Remains of Japhet
346
Scottish narrative theoretical and civil history
362
INTENDING THE DECLINE AND FALL
367
The Enlightened narrative and the project of 1776
369
Gibbons dark ages the writings of 17651772
381
Construction of a narrative the evidence of the Memoirs
397
List of References
403
Index
414
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