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Edward Gibbon (1707–1770) was an 18th-century English MP: for Petersfield from 1734 to 1741; and Southampton from 1741 to 1747. Gibbon was the only son of Edward Gibbon of Putney and his wife Catherine née Acton.
Edward Gibbon FRS (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ b ən /; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources , and ...
Edward Gibbon (born May 8 [April 27, Old Style], 1737, Putney, Surrey, England—died January 16, 1794, London) was an English rationalist historian and scholar best known as the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88), a continuous narrative from the 2nd century ce to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
18 de dez. de 2023 · Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an English historian most famous for his influential work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume one of which was published in 1776, with the final sixth volume coming in 1788.
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- Edward Gibbon was an English historian famous for his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He presents the fall as due to the rise...
- Edward Gibbon's theory that explained the fall of the Roman Empire was the rise of Christianity and a corresponding decline in traditional Roman va...
- Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was important because it raised interest in ancient history and was taken by enlightened thinkers as...
The Gibbons were a well-established Kentish family, a branch of which had in the seventeenth century moved to London and become involved in commerce. Gibbon's great-grandfather had been a linen draper, and his grandfather, the first Edward Gibbon (1666–1736), was a successful man of business.
Edward Gibbon was a historian whose principal work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776-88), sent shockwaves through religious orthodoxy. In it, he used classical scholarship to refute many of the prevailing myths surrounding the spread (and suppression) of Christianity in the Roman world, emphasising the ...
Após a morte de seu pai em 1770, Gibbon retorna uma vez mais para a Inglaterra. Foi membro do Parlamento (1774/83) e se fez notar pela violenta oposição à independência das colônias americanas. [ 2] Depois de sete anos de trabalho, publicou a primeira parte de sua obra.
