文档介绍：Barbarism and Religion
Volume Six
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock’s acclaimed sequence of
works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes ii and iii of
Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying
Gibbon’s narrative to the end of empire in the west. “It makes two
general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of narratives,
written on diverse premises and never fully synthesised with one another;
and second, that these chapters assert a progress of both barbarism and
religion from east to west, leaving much history behind as they do so.”
The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Barbarism:
Triumph in the West represents the culmination of a remarkable attempt
to discover and present what Gibbon was saying, what he meant by it,
and why he said it in the ways that he did, as well as an unparalleled
contribution to the historiography of Enlightened Europe.
j. g. a. pocock was born in London and brought up in Christchurch,
New Zealand, and educated at the Universities of Canterbury and
Cambridge. He is now Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus at
the Johns Hopkins University and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s
College, Cambridge. His many seminal works on intellectual history
include The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957, second
edition 1987), Politics, Language and Time (1971), The Machiavellian
Moment (1975, second edition 2003), Virtue, Commerce and History
(1985), The Discovery of Islands (2005), Political Thought and History
(2009) and five volumes in an ongoing sequence, initiated in 1999, on
Barbarism and Religion. He has also edited The Political Works of James
Harrington (1977) and Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
(1987), as well as the collaborative study The Varieties of British Political
Thought (1995). A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and of
the Royal Historical Society, Professor Pocock is also a member of the
American Acad