Historiography and enlightenment: A view of their history

Modern Intellectual History

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-96

  Pocock, J G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84859141691     PISSN: 14792443     EISSN: 14792451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1479244307001540     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1740 (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
2. Robertson, Case, 130 and passim.
3. I attempted a portrayal of the latter in J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol. 2, Narratives of Civil Government (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Fania Oz-Salzberger, “ The Political Thought of John Locke and the Significance of Political Hebraism,” Hebraic Political Studies 1/5, 568–92.
4. I Corinthians:23.
5. ““[NT] on ut aliquid diceretur, sed ne taceretur quoted from Augustine’s De Trinitate by Le Clerc in Ars Critica (second English edn, 1698), 117.
6. E.g. Arthur Bury, The Naked Gospel (Oxford, 1690), a work endorsed by Le Clerc. 10 Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ed. David Womersley (London: Allen Lane, 1994), 1: chap. 15, 446.
7. Isaac de Beausobre, Histoire de Manichee et du Manicheisme, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1734 - 29 ); Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, 5, forthcoming.
8. Heinrich Meier, Leo Strauss and the Theological—Political Problem (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006). B. W. Young,Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debates from Locke to Burke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
9. Roberto Bordoli, L'Illuminismo di Dio: alle origini della mentalita liberale. Religione, teologia, filosofia e storia in Johann Salomo Semler (1725-1791) (Torino: L. S. Olschki, 2004).
10. Gibbon, Decline and Fall 1: 490. See further J. G. A. Pocock, “Perceptions of Modernity in Early Modern Historical Thinking,” Intellectual History Review 19/ 1, 79–82. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, 1 : 456–9.
11. See, in particular, Nigel Aston, “Infidelity Ancient and Modern: George Horne Reads Edward Gibbon,” Albion 2713 (1995), 561 - 82; and idem, “A ‘Disorderly Squadron’? A Fresh Look at Clerical Responses to the Decline and Fall in David Womersley, ed., Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1997), 253–78.
12. Pocock, Narratives of Civil Government. For Gibbon’s judgments on both authors, see the Bibliographical Index to Womersley’s edition of Decline and Fall, 3 :1196 (Bayle), 1233–4 (he Clerc).
13. Pocock, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 157 - 68; Beausobre Histoire de Manichee et du Manicheisme, 1 : 167 - 8.