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Barbarism and Religion.(Book Review)
Albion, September, 2004 by Young, B.W.
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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 ...
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