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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... became the main center of intellectual development , livelier and more enterprising than contemporary Byzantium , far ahead of contemporary Europe . In the course of this renaissance the thinkers of Islam showed high promise in their ...
... became the main center of intellectual development , livelier and more enterprising than contemporary Byzantium , far ahead of contemporary Europe . In the course of this renaissance the thinkers of Islam showed high promise in their ...
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... became established that a man who had lived in the town for a year and a day was legally free ; so a burgher was by definition a free man . In spite of the class divisions between merchants and workers , and the increasing differences ...
... became established that a man who had lived in the town for a year and a day was legally free ; so a burgher was by definition a free man . In spite of the class divisions between merchants and workers , and the increasing differences ...
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... became semi - independent city- states , governed to some extent under democratic institutions . No nation , they settled down as provinces that eventually came under the control of the dukes of Burgundy and then of the Hapsburgs , but ...
... became semi - independent city- states , governed to some extent under democratic institutions . No nation , they settled down as provinces that eventually came under the control of the dukes of Burgundy and then of the Hapsburgs , but ...
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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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