The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History /

Edward Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these characters. This book, the first to be de...

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Main Author:	Lock, F. P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
Subjects:	Gibbon, Edward, > 1737-1794. > History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Empire, 284-476. Numbers in literature. Literature and history. Symbolism of numbers in literature. History. Historiography. Rome > History > Empire, 284-476 > Historiography. Rome (Empire)

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