The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Jonathan Theodore

Author:Jonathan Theodore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

68.Gibbon (1993), IV, pp. 117–27.

69.Op. cit., I, p. 433.

70.Op. cit., I, p. 434.

71.Op. cit., IV, pp. 120–121.

72.Op. cit., I, p. 487. The chapter as a whole covers pp. 487–567.

73.Op. cit., I, p. 491, p. 494.

74.Op. cit., I, pp. 487–567. The indictment of Christianity as essential to the downfall of the empire is repeated at VI, p. 620. For more on Gibbon and Christianity see Patricia B. Craddock, Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian 1772–1794 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire (ad 100–400) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984) John G. Pocock, “Gibbon and the Primitive Church,” in Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, and Brian Young (eds), History, Religion and Culture: British Intellectual History, 1750–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 48–68. While the large part of Gibbon’s caustic view of Christianity is in the notorious Chapters 15 and 16 of the Decline and Fall, he rarely neglects to note its destructive influence through the entirety of the text.

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