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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... Roman Empire and inaugurating the Dark Ages . To re- cent historians this famous year seems no more important than it did to contemporary Romans , who mostly failed to notice that the Empire was no more . The barbarians had been ...
... Roman Empire and inaugurating the Dark Ages . To re- cent historians this famous year seems no more important than it did to contemporary Romans , who mostly failed to notice that the Empire was no more . The barbarians had been ...
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... Roman Empire . While men in the Dark Ages were indeed quite unable to organize and administer a real empire , ancient Rome had none the less given the Church its organization , its law , and its tradition of statesmanship , best ...
... Roman Empire . While men in the Dark Ages were indeed quite unable to organize and administer a real empire , ancient Rome had none the less given the Church its organization , its law , and its tradition of statesmanship , best ...
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... Roman emperors for political supremacy : a drama that unfolded with the inexorable logic of a Greek tragedy , and that also illustrated the favorite medieval moral , the deadly sin of pride . It began on a plane of high principle with ...
... Roman emperors for political supremacy : a drama that unfolded with the inexorable logic of a Greek tragedy , and that also illustrated the favorite medieval moral , the deadly sin of pride . It began on a plane of high principle with ...
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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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