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.
“I personally regard this book as excellent. Its thesis is
audacious, its prose is elegant, its argument is logical and easy
to follow, its references are meticulous, and its use of primary
sources is impressive.”—Martin George Holmes Journal of Religious
History
“Liebert has made extensive use of the most recent scholarship, and
his study broadens the context for understanding Gibbon’s words by
discussing in detail the kinds of narratives of conversion that
were familiar to Gibbon and in light of which he shaped his own
distinctive story. One of the most striking features of Gibbon’s
Christianity is that it re-creates the genealogy of Gibbon’s
evolution in telling his own story and that of Rome. The connection
of the two, as shown here in detail, is an outstanding advance in
the scholarship on the author and his great work.”—Ralph Lerner,
author of Naïve Readings: Reveilles Political and Philosophic
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