Concept
Edward Gibbon
Overview
Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.
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Philosophers who discussed Edward Gibbon
- Edmund Burke
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Thomas Carlyle
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Boethius
- Baron d'Holbach
- Pierre Gassendi
- Voltaire
- Hypatia
- Cicero
- Apollonius of Tyana
Related ideas
- French Revolution
- Freemasonry
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Horace Walpole
- Adam Ferguson
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Adam Smith
- Lactantius
- Middle Ages
- Seven Years' War
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Tacitus
- American Revolution
- Leslie Stephen
- Germaine de Staël
- Irony
- Roman Empire
- Criticism of Christianity
- Switzerland
- Age of Enlightenment
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Joseph Priestley
- Jupiter (god)
- Whigs (British political party)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Niccolò Machiavelli.