Books by James Cotter Morison

CONTENTSGibbon's Early Life Up To the Time of His Leaving OxfordAt LausanneIn the MilitiaThe Italian JourneyLiterary Schemes. - The History of Switzerland - Dissertation on the Sixth Eneid. - Father's Death. - Settlement in LondonLife in London. - Parliament. - The Board of Trade. - The Decline and Fall. - Migration to LausanneThe First Three Volumes of the Decline and FallThe Last Ten Years of His Life at LausanneThe Last Three Volumes of the Decline and FallLast Illness. - Death. - Conclusion

James Cotter Morison was also the author of biographies of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Edward Gibbon.

This work, first published in 1863 by the Victorian essayist and political reformer James Cotter Morison (1832-88), presents a vivid and lively account of the twelfth-century reformer Saint Bernard and his tumultuous era, from the foundation of the Abbey of Clairvaux to the preaching of the Second Crusade.