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==Further reading== ===Before 1985=== * Barlow, J. W. (1879). “Gibbon and Julian”. In: [https://books.google.com/books?id=fHkNAAAAYAAJ ''Hermathena'', Volume 3], 142–159. Dublin: Edward Posonby. * Beer, Gavin de. ''Gibbon and His World''. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968. HB: {{ISBN|0-670-28981-7}}. * Bowersock, G. W., ''et al''. eds. ''Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. * Craddock, Patricia B. ''Young Edward Gibbon: Gentleman of Letters''. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. HB: {{ISBN|0-8018-2714-0}}. Biography. * Jordan, David. ''Gibbon and his Roman Empire''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. * Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. ''The Library of Edward Gibbon''. 2nd ed. Godalming, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1940, repr. 1980. * Lewis, Bernard. "Gibbon on Muhammad". ''Daedalus'' 105:3 (Summer 1976), 89–101. * Low, D. M. ''Edward Gibbon 1737–1794''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1937. Biography. * Momigliano, Arnaldo. "Gibbon's Contributions to Historical Method". ''Historia'' 2 (1954), 450–463. Reprinted in Momigliano, ''Studies in Historiography'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1966; Garland Pubs., 1985), 40–55. PB: {{ISBN|0-8240-6372-4}}. * Porter, Roger J. "Gibbon's Autobiography: Filling Up the Silent Vacancy". ''Eighteenth-Century Studies'' 8:1 (Autumn 1974), 1–26. * [[Leslie Stephen|Stephen, Leslie]], "[[s:Studies of a Biographer/Gibbon's Autobiography|Gibbon's Autobiography]]" in ''Studies of a Biographer'', Vol. 1 (1898) * Swain, J. W. ''Edward Gibbon the Historian''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966. * {{cite journal | last1 = Turnbull | first1 = Paul | year = 1982 | title = The Supposed Infidelity of Edward Gibbon | journal = Historical Journal | volume = 5 | pages = 23–41 | doi = 10.1017/S0018246X00009845 | s2cid = 159801709 }} * White Jr. Lynn, ed. ''The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon's Problem after Two Centuries''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. HB: {{ISBN|0-520-01334-4}}. ===Since 1985=== * Berghahn, C.-F., and T. Kinzel, eds., ''Edward Gibbon im deutschen Sprachraum. Bausteine einer Rezeptionsgeschichte''. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. * Bowersock, G. W. ''Gibbon's Historical Imagination''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. * Burrow, J. W. ''Gibbon (Past Masters)''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. HB: {{ISBN|0-19-287553-1}}. PB: {{ISBN|0-19-287552-3}}. * Carnochan, W. Bliss. ''Gibbon's Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. HB: {{ISBN|0-8047-1363-4}}. * Chaney, Edward, "Reiseerlebnis und 'Traumdeutung' bei Edward Gibbon und William Beckford", ''Europareisen politisch-sozialer Eliten im 18. Jahrhundert'', eds. J. Rees, W. Siebers and H. Tilgner (Berlin 2002), pp. 243–60. * Chaney, Edward, "Gibbon, Beckford and the Interpretation of ''Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents''", ''The Beckford Society Annual Lectures 2000–2003'', ed. Jon Millinton (Beckford Society, 2004). * Craddock, Patricia B. ''Edward Gibbon: a Reference Guide''. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987. PB: {{ISBN|0-8161-8217-5}}. A comprehensive listing of secondary literature through 1985. See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20120923040746/http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/pcraddoc/dfgib/Newrefgu.htm her supplement] covering the period through 1997. * Ghosh, Peter R. "Gibbon Observed". ''Journal of Roman Studies'' 81 (1991), 132–156. * Ghosh, Peter R. "Gibbon's First Thoughts: Rome, Christianity and the ''Essai sur l'Étude de la Litterature'' 1758–61". ''Journal of Roman Studies'' 85 (1995), 148–164. * Ghosh, Peter R. "The Conception of Gibbon's ''History''", in McKitterick and Quinault, eds. ''Edward Gibbon and Empire'', 271–316. * Ghosh, Peter R. "Gibbon's Timeless Verity: Nature and Neo-Classicism in the Late Enlightenment," in Womersley, Burrow, Pocock, eds. ''Edward Gibbon: bicentenary essays''. * Ghosh, Peter R. "Gibbon, Edward 1737–1794 British historian of Rome and universal historian," in Kelly Boyd, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing'' (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), 461–463. * Kapossy, Béla, Lovis, Béatrice (dir.), ''Edward Gibbon et Lausanne. Le Pays de Vaud à la rencontre des Lumières européennes''. Gollion: Infolio, 2022, 528 p. * Levine, Joseph M., "Edward Gibbon and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns," in Levine, ''Humanism and History: origins of modern English historiography'' (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987). * Levine, Joseph M. "Truth and Method in Gibbon's Historiography," in Levine, ''The Autonomy of History: truth and method from Erasmus to Gibbon'' (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999). * McKitterick, R., and R. Quinault, eds. ''Edward Gibbon and Empire''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. * Norman, Brian. "The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon," in ''Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century'' [SVEC] v.2002:03. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. * O'Brien, Karen. "English Enlightenment Histories, 1750–c. 1815" in {{cite book|editor=José Rabasa |title=The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 3: 1400–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcVZeiGg4awC&pg=PA518|year=2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|pages=518–35|isbn=978-0199219179}}. * Pocock, J. G. A. ''Barbarism and Religion'', 4 vols.: vol. 1, ''The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764'', 1999 [hb: {{ISBN|0-521-63345-1}}]; vol. 2, ''Narratives of Civil Government'', 1999 [hb: {{ISBN|0-521-64002-4}}]; vol. 3, ''The First Decline and Fall'', 2003 [pb: {{ISBN|0-521-82445-1}}]; vol. 4, ''Barbarians, Savages and Empires'', 2005 [pb: {{ISBN|0-521-72101-6}}]. all Cambridge Univ. Press. * Porter, Roy. ''Gibbon: Making History''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, HB: {{ISBN|0-312-02728-1}}. * Turnbull, Paul. "'Une marionnette infidele': the Fashioning of Edward Gibbon's Reputation as the English Voltaire," in Womersley, Burrow, Pocock, eds. ''Edward Gibbon: bicentenary essays''. * Womersley, David P. ''The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. HB: {{ISBN|0-521-35036-0}}. * Womersley, David P., John Burrow, and J. G. A. Pocock, eds. ''Edward Gibbon: bicentenary essays''. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1997. HB: {{ISBN|0-7294-0552-4}}. * Womersley, David P. ''Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and His Reputation, 1776–1815''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. PB: {{ISBN|0-19-818733-5}}.
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