Edward Gibbon was born in 1737 in Putney, England, and was the only child of his parents to survive infancy. Although his education was frequently interrupted by ill health, his knowledge was far-reaching. His brief career as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, ended when he joined the Catholic Church. His father sent him to Lausanne, in Switzerland, where, while studying Greek and French for the next five years, he re-joined the Protestant Church. In 1761 he published his Essai sur l'étude de la Littérature; the English version appeared in 1764. Meanwhile, Gibbon served as a captain in the Hampshire Militia until 1763, when he returned to the Continent. It was while he was in Rome in 1764 that he first conceived the work that was eventually to become The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
In 1774, after the death of his father, Gibbon settled in London and was elected to Parliament where he sat for the next eight years, although he never once spoke in the Commons. He also took his place among the literary circles of London. The first volume of his famous History was published in 1776; it was highly praised for its learning and style but incurred some censure for its treatment of the early Christians. The second and third volumes appeared in 1781 and the final three, which were written in Lausanne, in 1788. He died while on a visit to his friend, Lord Sheffield, who posthumously edited Gibbon's autobiographical papers and published them in 1796.
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 - an enthralling account by 'the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment'. This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors.
1 小引 2013年是我辞职后的创业元年,当然,也是我系统阅读西方历史的第一年。伴随着汤因比在《历史研究》里的袅袅余音,我在初略看完《全球通史》后,毅然选择了爱德华吉本的《罗马帝国衰亡史》作为我今年的主攻方向。我的幸运之处在于,罗马史的阅读与我现实的创业经...
評分读了大半年的书,在kindle上要5万多页,看了几个小时进度才增长1%,多少是对耐力的考验。著者和译者当然更是付出了辛勤的努力。 最开始看到这本书,应该是某次在商务汉译学术名著系列的书柜前看到过标题,后来知道了那是节译本,在网上还下了英文版,不过和其他很多书的英文版...
評分1776年的英国出版了两本历史上举足轻重的著作:亚当史密斯的《国富论》和 爱德华吉本 的《罗马帝国衰亡史》。 早年简单看过后者这本大作,认为吉本对罗马帝国衰亡的解读主要集中在皇帝个人执政行为和宗教这两方面,尽管分析详细,但对衰亡原因的理解过于狭隘。而随着近现代考...
評分读了大半年的书,在kindle上要5万多页,看了几个小时进度才增长1%,多少是对耐力的考验。著者和译者当然更是付出了辛勤的努力。 最开始看到这本书,应该是某次在商务汉译学术名著系列的书柜前看到过标题,后来知道了那是节译本,在网上还下了英文版,不过和其他很多书的英文版...
評分关于罗马的历史,或者罗马帝国的历史的著作可谓汗牛充栋,而生于18世纪的英国史学泰斗爱德华·吉本所著的《罗马帝国衰亡史》在其中则当之无愧地占据了重要而显著的位置。通史性质的史书,有利于从历史的漫长这样一个角度来体味历史发展的脉络,在更大的一个尺度上找出某种规律...
看完覺得整個人都綻開成一朵燦爛的煙花。
评分這文筆真叫一個好, 清爽彈牙, 繞梁三日. 真讓人手不釋捲. 像國內的什麼明朝事兒等都該用去燒火盆兒.
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评分Gibbon的這本書如史記一般,不僅是珍貴的曆史紀錄,也是傳世的文學巨製
评分有史評的感覺
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