The fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion, which focuses on eighteenth-century Europe. 'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the fourth volume in the sequence, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and ...