Gibbon’s Christianity: religion, reason, and the fall of Rome

History of European Ideas 49 (2):477-479 (2023)
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Gibbon was a far more subtle, serious and empathetic historian of the triumph of Christianity than his reputation as a sneering infidel historian implies, or so argues Liebert in this short and wel...

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10.1080/01916599.2022.2095526

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