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A better half to Enlightenment Historiography offers a survey of crucial historians and historiographical debates within the lengthy eighteenth century, interpreting those debates' stylistic, philosophical and political importance. The chapters, a lot of which have been in particular commissioned for this quantity, supply a mix of available advent and unique interpretive argument; they'll therefore charm either to the student of the interval and the extra basic reader. half I considers Gibbon, Hume, Robertson, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Herder and Vico. half II explores wider topics of nationwide and thematic context: English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are mentioned, as are the ideas of ancient growth, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity inside of 18th century historiography. participants are Robert Mankin, Simon Kow, Jeffrey Smitten, Rebecca Kingston, Siofra Pierse, Bertrand Binoche, Donald Phillip Verene, Ulrich Muhlack, David Allan, Noelle Gallagher, Francois-Emmanuel Boucher, Sandra Rudnick Luft, Sophie Bourgault, C. Akca Atac, and Robert Sparling.
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Part II of the Companion proposes wider themes of national and thematic context. English, Scottish, French and German Enlightenment historians are discussed, as are the concepts of historical progress, secularism, the origins of historicism and the deployments of Greek and Roman antiquity within 18th century historiography. The chapters of this volume do not offer a unitary vision of the Enlightenment; rather, readers will note the disciplinary, methodological and interpretive pluralism within the volume’s chapters.
His views did not provide him with historical laws that would allow him to harmonize these different methods, much less to make predictions about the future. They did allow him to do something he probably considered more feasible and important—to make empirical revisions of the present. Clearly the Decline’s real endpoint was not 1453 or the Italian Renaissance, but the eighteenth-century present, which could not end even with Gibbon’s return to the Forum in his final sentence. The span of his creation continued to occupy the author in the years after he had finished the Decline.
See The Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. E. , 2:107. My translation of “politique” is barely satisfactory; “political instigator” or “thinker”, or “machiavellian” would also be true to period nuances. See for instance Gibbon, Autobiographies, p. 314 n. 31. 14 To Edmund Burke, the century’s and modern Europe’s end came two years after Gibbon’s final volume. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. g. p. 119. 15 Gibbon, Autobiographies, p. 308: “the middle tone between a dull Chronicle and a Rhetorical declamation”.