Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall

''Barbarism and Religion'' - Edward Gibbon''s own phrase - is the title of a 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, challenging the notion of any one ''Enlightenment'' and positing instead ...