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The Lamp Magazine | The Anti-Gibbon

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Gibbon and Peter Brown are actually more similar than one might think, and it is these similarities that come to the fore of Brown’s intellectual memoir.

The Lamp Magazine | The Anti-Gibbon Skip to Content Christ the King 2023 | September 19, 2023 Arts and Letters The Anti-Gibbon by John Ladouceur Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Peter Brown Princeton, pp. 736, $45.00 On October 15, 1764, while visiting Rome on one of those European Grand Tours that constituted a rite of passage for so many upper-class eighteenth-century Englishmen, Edward Gibbon had a visual experience which inspired him to write his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . As the young man sat, “musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,” he chanced upon a gr

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