LeNain de Tillemont: Gibbon's "Sure-Footed Mule"

Gibbon was scrupulous and generous in discharging his intellecttual and scholarly debts. The footnotes in the Decline and Fall (which comprise about a fourth of the work) are a candid and reliable index of the materials used in its composition. The reader of Gibbon is most forcefully struck by those...

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Authors: Jordan, David P. (Author) ; Gibbon, Edward (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1970]
In: Church history
Year: 1970, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 483-502
Online Access: Volltext (doi)