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Barbarism and Religion.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Barbarism and Religion.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
J. G. A. Pocock. Barbarism and Religion. (Volume Three: The First Decline and Fall.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 527. $60.00 ISBN 0-521-82445-1.

J. H. Hexter sagely observed of Pocock's The Machiavellian Moment, not long after its appearance in 1975, that "One would be ill-advised to try to hold one's breath until that moment passes." Hexter's appreciative apercu has even greater purchase when one contemplates Pocock's continuing exploration of the Gibbonian moment. His discursive study of the contexts and occasions of Gibbon's Decline and Fall already encompasses three volumes. The latest installment, The First Decline and Fall, covers a vast temporal arc in its thoroughly grounded representation of Gibbon's adaptation of a critically Tacitean intelligence. This entails the elucidation by Pocock of a...

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