00973nam a2200157Ia 4500 20250714155853.0 250714s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780521103459 937.06072 GOS Gossman, Lionel The Empire Unpossess'd Cambridge University Press 2008 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. Political Science ENGLISH 575846 575846 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-07-14 0 937.06072 GOS 239295 2025-07-14 15:58:53 2025-07-14 ENGLISH