Books that Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Episode 2, The Making of Gibbon the Historian.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 6689242 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2017Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
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Leo Damrosch
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017.
Follow Edward Gibbon's intellectual development: his childhood obsession with reading, his military service, his disappointed love, his social circles, his personal politics, and his life as a "gentleman scholar of leisure." Your primary source for this biographical study: fragments from Gibbon's posthumously published Memoirs.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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