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On Context and Meaning in Pocock’s Barbarism and Religion, and on Gibbon’s “Protestantism” in His Chapters on Religion
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 77, Number 1, January 2016
- pp. 147-155
- 10.1353/jhi.2016.0001
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Rosenblatt questions whether Pocock’s Barbarism and Religion, though enormously learned and rich, in fact accomplishes Pocock’s stated aims. In other words, does the context presented help to explain the intended meaning and significance of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall? She asks whether Pocock’s methodology, indebted to the Cambridge School, is consistent and serviceable and challenges his claim that Gibbon should be seen as a member of the “Protestant Enlightenment.”