Gibbon Day

Saturday 16 October 2004

 

 

The day consisted of lectures and discussions on the work of Edward Gibbon.  An exhibition of books from the eighteenth and earlier centuries--Gibbon's own works, together with some of his sources--as well as of works by the day's speakers, was presented in the May Gallery of the Mullen Library by the senior staff of the Library's Rare Book Collection.

 

Speakers

 

Patricia B. Craddock (Distinguished Professor of English, University of Florida).

Author of Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian.

“The Triumph of Characterization and Religion."

Clifford Ando (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California).

Author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire.

“Narrating Decline and Fall.”

J.G.A. Pocock (Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University).

Author of Barbarism and Religion, 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon; 2: Narratives of Civil Government; 3: The First Decline and Fall.

“Gibbon’s Christian History: Problems of Context and Interpretation.”