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Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph (repost)

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Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph (repost)

J. G. A. Pocock, "Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521760720 | 2011 | PDF | 442 pages | 3.6 MB

This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the character of 'enlightenment'.