Gibbon's Christianity: Religion, Reason, and the Fall of Rome - Hardcover

by Hugh Liebert (Author)

Explores the life and work of historian Edward Gibbon, and his complex relationship with Christianity, through an examination of his correspondence, private journals, early works, and unfinished memoirs.

Author Biography

Hugh Liebert is Associate Professor of American Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He is the author of Plutarch's Politics: Between City and Empire.