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The Empire Unpossess'd
Publication details: Cambridge University Press 2008ISBN:- 9780521103459
- 937.06072 GOS
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Books | Anna Centenary Library 7TH FLOOR, B WING | 937.06072 GOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 239295 |
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| 937.06 VEL The Tiberian narrative, 2.94-131 | 937.06 VOU Power and eroticism in imperial Rome | 937.06 WEL The Roman Empire | 937.06072 GOS The Empire Unpossess'd | 937.06092 POC Barbarism and religion : barbarians, savages Nad Empires | 937.06092 POC.2 Barbarism and religion | 937.06092 POC.3 Barbarism and religion |
One of a small number of historical texts that have become classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant to the classics of fictional literature. In Lionel Gossman's thematic and rhetorical study of Gibbon's masterpiece, the foundation of authority is seen as the historian's chief concern. The central problem of the work - the foundation of political authority - also appears in another form, Gossman contends, as a central problem of the work - that of the authority of the historical text itself.
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