... populations in an Anglo-Saxon ‘Greater Britain’. ²⁷ Samuel Butler Erewhon settler colonialism capitalism political economy missionary conversion indentured labour racial assimilation humanitarianism Edward Gibbon Wakefield In the middle of a comparative discourse...

...It is a mistake to suppose that the scientific history of the Christian church, worthy of continuing use, started only a few decades ago. Arguably, the best work with which to begin a study of the Roman persecutions is article 16 of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall...

...This chapter focuses on Book II of Augustine's City of God. It talks about Augustine's thoughts on faith, which demands an act of the will that transcends the purely intellectual faculty. It also looks at Edward Gibbon's expansion of the thesis on the fall of Rome in 410, which...

...As a novelist, Jane Austen draws at large on the literature of her century. She uses the insights and techniques of many earlier writers, not all of whom are by any means conservative. Poets of a philosophical temper, like Thomas Gray and William Cowper, historians like David Hume and Edward Gibbon...

...This chapter explores Edward Gibbon’s presentation of character in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in relation to two eighteenth-century intellectual developments. The first is the rise of social, sentimental history that abandoned the political and military...

... of the idealization of Greek homosexuality as spiritual and desexualized by early homosexual activists. It analyses the history of the reception of Greek ‘virtue’ and Roman ‘vice’ from Edward Gibbon, Jeremy Bentham, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, to George Cecil Ives and Edward Carpenter. The Introduction suggests...

... of other universities with a view to distinguishing the genuinely critical from good-hearted academic one-upmanship. The fourth category for notice is that of insiders who were technically non-matriculated outsiders, notably college servants, as well as graduates such as Edward Gibbon, who wanted...

... Christianity, in order to fit Islam into it. The book draws primarily on Edward Gibbon's account of East Rome and Islam. Mughal Empire Ottoman Empire Safavid Empire Muʿtazilism Bīrūnī polymath Corpus Coranicum project Jesus Gibbon E historian Ockley S Arabist Sale G Arabist Universal history ʿAbd al...

... Puccini Giacomo Silk Road Ensemble Turandot digital marketplace Kitaro Silk Road documentary Silk Road Online TOR network Edward Gibbon Anthony Jenkinson Muhammad paper silk square trade It is a staple of world history textbooks that the silk road reached an unprecedented height of activity...

... Australia Canary islands Germany India Settlers Belgium Belgian empire Namibia Vansina Jan Japan Capitalism Chechnya Ottoman empire Persian empire Serbia Egypt Globalization British Empire Canary Islands Dutch empire French empire Edward Gibbon Ottoman Empire Portuguese empire Spanish...

... Elizabeth I Edward Gibbon David Hume In 1885, at the age of ninety, Leopold von Ranke sat in his rooms in Berlin, composing his last historical works. He could no longer read, his memory was failing him, and he found it difficult to write. Dictating his words to one of his devoted assistants, he set down...

... history Social history Thucydides America Birth Elizabeth I of England Feminist history French Revolution Inquisition Sex Holocaust Past Protestantism Ranke Leopold von Rodes Guilhem de Valla Lorenzo Douglas Adams Robert Darnton Elizabeth I Jean Froissart Edward Gibbon David Hume...

... Gibbon Edward Byzantium Charlemagne Constantinople famine war impact of climate change plague Abbasid caliphate Danube Manichaeism Marcus Aurelius emperor Septimius Severus emperor silk route Justinian emperor Procopius historian Vandals Virgil Berbers Gelimer Vandal king Edward Gibbon...

... War 1814–16 New Zealand Company Tasmania Victoria Australia Wakefield Edward Gibbon Brooke James China Hong Kong Imperial Maritime Customs Service Kowloon Hong Kong Opium Wars 1839–42 and 1856–60 African Association Ascension Island Bathurst Gambia Freetown Gambia Gold Coast...

... Antoine Nicolas de Caritat marquis de deism Gibbon Edward Huguenots Rome sauvée Artémire Moore John Pirandello Luigi Candide Lennox Caroline 1st Baroness Holland Scythes Les Traité sur la tolérance Sarah Bernhardt David Garrick Edward Gibbon Aaron Hill Marilyn Horne John Moore Luigi...

...This chapter examines histories written by English writers of the period 1750–c.1815. These include Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88), Catharine Macaulay's The History of England from the Accession of James I...

.... It acknowledged that for every David Hume there was during this period a myriad of religious apologists, and for every Edward Gibbon, whole coteries of intellectually respected clerical opponents. Whether ‘Enlightenment’ is construed as the systematic application of a newly critical philosophy to traditional...

... the young Edward Gibbon arrived at Oxford, his ambition was to master oriental learning. Although this was not to be, many years later Gibbon recalled that what had tired his youthful enthusiasm was the fact that ‘since the days of Pocock and Hyde, oriental learning has always been the pride of Oxford...

... they were written, have influenced the research agenda which remains strong in archaeological research. It considers the thoughts and work of the historian Edward Gibbon (1737–94). The second section examines new perspectives emerging from detailed landscape studies focused on the later Iron Age. Britain...

... to Catholicism ‘Memoirs of My Life’ Middleton Conyers 1683–1750 Oxford University philosophie death public reputation Miscellaneous Works 1796 1814 and 1815 Holroyd John Baker first Lord Sheffield 1735–1821 Hobbes Thomas 1588–1679 Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall reputation footnotes serial...