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Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Books On Demand - EAN : 9782322613571
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EAN : 9782322613571
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- EAN13 : 9782322613571
- Réf. éditeur : 395026
- Editeur : Books On Demand
- Date Parution : 25 avr. 2025
- Disponibilite : Disponible
- Nombre de pages : 106
- Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:8 mm
- Poids : 166gr
- Résumé : Edward Gibbons Memoirs of My Life and Writings offers a masterclass in intellectual autobiography, tracing the evolution of the historian whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire redefined Enlightenment historiography. Written with unflinching self-scrutiny, Gibbon dissects his transformation from a sickly child into Europes preeminent chronicler of imperial collapse, blending scholarly rigor with wry reflections on personal failures and triumphs. The memoir reveals how Gibbons Swiss education and Roman epiphany at the Capitoline coalesced into a lifelong obsession with civilizational decay. He meticulously reconstructs his research methodology, from scouring Byzantine chronicles to defending his controversial treatment of early Christianity, while candidly addressing critics who accused him of undermining religious orthodoxy. Gibbons narrative oscillates between the grand his philosophical debates with Diderot and Hume and the intimate, including his thwarted romance and fraught relationship with his father. The work stands as both a manifesto for empirical history and a meditation on how private obsessions fuel public legacies, essential reading for students of historiography and Enlightenment thought.
- Biographie : Edward Gibbon (1737.1794), the architect of modern historical writing, revolutionized Enlightenment scholarship with The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Born into Englands landed gentry, his fragile health and voracious reading habits forged an insatiable intellect that flourished at Oxford and Lausanne. Gibbons masterwork, spanning six volumes and 1,300 years of history, established forensic analysis of primary sources as the gold standard for historians. His secular interpretation of Romes collapse and candid treatment of Christianitys political role ignited controversies that still resonate in religious studies. Though Memoirs remained unfinished at his death, the fragments reveal a polymath equally adept at dissecting parliamentary politics as Byzantine theology, whose personal vulnerabilities unrequited love, familial tensions shaped his relentless pursuit of historical truth.
