Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 Seiten Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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... England of free men who have the wealth to be able to apply themselves to it be set to learning ... until the time when they can read English writing well . " The youth of England soon had to stop learning and to fight for their lives ...
... England of free men who have the wealth to be able to apply themselves to it be set to learning ... until the time when they can read English writing well . " The youth of England soon had to stop learning and to fight for their lives ...
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... ENGLAND 1. The Muddling Mother of Parliaments It is not England that made her Parliament , the saying goes , but Parlia- ment that made England . Englishmen are wont to add that the key to this process was not intellect but character ...
... ENGLAND 1. The Muddling Mother of Parliaments It is not England that made her Parliament , the saying goes , but Parlia- ment that made England . Englishmen are wont to add that the key to this process was not intellect but character ...
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... England the land of liberty . He contrasted English with French courts , where there was no trial by jury and torture was a common procedure . From his own observation he described the misery of the French common people , continually in ...
... England the land of liberty . He contrasted English with French courts , where there was no trial by jury and torture was a common procedure . From his own observation he described the misery of the French common people , continually in ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE Origins of WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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