Edward Gibbon: And He Rose Again

The return of religion and the West’s current obsession with decline make Roy Porter’s profile of Edward Gibbon, first published in History Today in 1986, curiously dated.

Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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