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I first realized that this was a book which might be written, and that I might write it, when I was working on material arising out of the collation which underpinned my edition of The Decline and Fall. This material was first embodied in my contribution to the Royal Historical Society’s 1994 conference on Gibbon, held in Magdalen College, Oxford, and organized by Roland Quinault and Rosamond McKitterick. I must therefore thank at the outset my colleague, Felicity Heal, for suggesting that I might offer something on that occasion, and for thereby imparting the first, innocent, impulse to this book.
Three of the chapters in this book have been published before in less developed forms. Chapter 1 first appeared as ‘Gibbon and the “Watchmen of the Holy City”: Revision and Religion in the Decline and Fall’, in R. Quinault and R. McKitterick (eds.), Edward Gibbon and Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 190–216. An early version of Chapter 5 was published as ‘Gibbon’s Unfinished History’ in The Historical Journal, 35/1 (1992), 63–89. A stripped-down prototype of Chapter 6 was given an outing at the Gibbon Bicentenary Colloquium held at Jesus College, Oxford, in the summer of 1994, and I was then and am now very grateful to the select group of participants on that occasion for their valuable comments. A much enlarged version (which was nevertheless more slender than the heavyweight chapter included here) was then published in the proceedings of that colloquium as ‘Gibbon’s Memoirs: Autobiography in Time of Revolution’, in D. Womersley (ed.), Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1997), 347–404.
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