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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... Philip II began declaring him- self insolvent . But from the outset Spain suffered more insidiously from its rich ... Philip II . Reputed to have laughed only once in his life , at the news of the great massacre of St. Bartholomew ...
... Philip II began declaring him- self insolvent . But from the outset Spain suffered more insidiously from its rich ... Philip II . Reputed to have laughed only once in his life , at the news of the great massacre of St. Bartholomew ...
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... Philip II it developed no such vigorous merchant and maritime class . Philip helped by trying to keep all foreigners out of the New World that the pope had oblig- ingly assigned to Spain , for the English retaliated by piratical raids ...
... Philip II it developed no such vigorous merchant and maritime class . Philip helped by trying to keep all foreigners out of the New World that the pope had oblig- ingly assigned to Spain , for the English retaliated by piratical raids ...
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... Philip II Queen Elizabeth had indeed a “ mighty opposite . " Bigoted , pitiless , despotic , Philip was even so wholly dedi- cated to the high cause of restoring Europe to the Catholic faith . He was a worthy symbol of the idealism of ...
... Philip II Queen Elizabeth had indeed a “ mighty opposite . " Bigoted , pitiless , despotic , Philip was even so wholly dedi- cated to the high cause of restoring Europe to the Catholic faith . He was a worthy symbol of the idealism of ...
Inhalt
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE Origins of WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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