
Books that Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Making of Gibbon the Historian
Educational · Mar 3, 2017 · 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E2: 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.
Educational · Mar 3, 2017 · 29 min