Barbarism and Religion: Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764

''Barbarism and Religion'' - Edward Gibbon''s own phrase - is the title of an acclaimed sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world''s leading historians of ideas, challenging the notion of any one ''Enlightenment'' ...