Books that Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Season 1 Episode 2 The Making of Gibbon the Historian
- 29 min
Follow Edward Gibbon's intellectual development: his childhood obsession with reading, his military service, his disappointed love, his social circles, his personal politics, and his life as a gentleman "scholar of leisure." Your primary source for this biographical study: fragments from Gibbon's posthumously published Memoirs.