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11 unusual facts about Edward Gibbon


Anti-Scottish sentiment

For example, Edward Gibbon combined De Situ Britanniae with St. Jerome's description of the Attacotti by musing on the possibility that a 'race of cannibals' had once dwelt in the neighbourhood of Glasgow.

Blades Club

White's, with which (like Blades), Beau Brummell, Horace Walpole, and Edward Gibbon had some association and where M’s real-life counterpart, Sir Stewart Menzies, was a member, and where Fleming too was a member until moving to Boodle’s; and

Cerami

According to English historian Edward Gibbon, even accounting for 5 or 6 men at arms accompanying each Norman knight into battle, and even accounting for the Normans' superior martial training, the victory was either miraculous or fabulous.

Christian Topography

Edward Gibbon, for example, said "the nonsense of the Monk was, nevertheless, mingled with the practical knowledge of the traveller" and used it in writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Dero A. Saunders

With John H. Collins he compiled a noted translation of Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome He is also known for his abridged version of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Expurgation

He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Li Zongren

Li was an admirer of the British historian Edward Gibbon (1737–94) and his monumental historical work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Maeonius

Gibbon, Edward, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, "Chapter XI: Reign Of Claudius, Defeat Of The Goths. -- Part III."

Patricia Craddock

She is a noted expert on the historian Edward Gibbon, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Rise of Rome

Edward Gibbon noted that the Roman dictatorship was all the more difficult to baer due to the prior understanding and experience of political freedom - even under such late figures as Commodus, they were so famous for instance, a typical Roman magistrate or professional would be fully educated in all of the civics, ethics and morality that he saw violated all day every day around him, knowing himself to be in grave risk of his life if he raised this as an issue in public.

The History of the Saracens

Edward Gibbon, who admired and used his work, speaks of his fate as “unworthy of the man and of his country.”


Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk

His longtime mistress, Mary Ann Gibbon (a cousin of Edward Gibbon), was reputed to be his secret third wife and she had five children by him, including two sons who were officers of arms, Matthew Howard-Gibbon, and Edward Howard-Gibbon.

Council of the Seven Provinces

The historians Edward Gibbon and J. B. Bury believed that the acclamation took place at a regular meeting of the Concilium, but this has been rejected on the grounds that Avitus arrived in Arles at the wrong time of year for this, that the public meeting include representatives from outside the Seven Provinces and that Sidonius Apollinaris records that the meeting was arranged specifically to greet Avitus.

Foundation and Empire

Their story was familiar to Asimov from his recent reading of Robert Graves's novel Count Belisarius, and of his earlier study of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, on which the entire series is loosely based.

John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield

But he is remembered chiefly as the close friend and literary executor of Edward Gibbon (author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), whose Memoirs and other miscellaneous works he subsequently edited and published.

Karoline Pichler

She made her mark in historical romance, and the first of her novels of this class, Agathocles (1808), an answer to Edward Gibbon's attack on that hero in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, attained great popularity.

Patriarchate of Old Aquileia

Edward Gibbon claims that Pope Honorius I reconciled the Patriarch to Rome in 638, although this did not last.

The Scribblies

The name "Scribblies" derives from Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh's comment to Edward Gibbon upon receiving the second (or third, or possibly both) volume(s) of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?"