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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... monarchy was feasible , but its Parliament would remain unrepresentative until well into the nineteenth century ; and first it demonstrated the incapac- ity of aristocracy , the only real competitor with monarchy . The Tudors came into ...
... monarchy was feasible , but its Parliament would remain unrepresentative until well into the nineteenth century ; and first it demonstrated the incapac- ity of aristocracy , the only real competitor with monarchy . The Tudors came into ...
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... monarchy reached its peak ; France became the major power in Europe . It took over as well the cultural leadership of Europe , setting the standards of judgment and taste , making French the international language of the cultivated ...
... monarchy reached its peak ; France became the major power in Europe . It took over as well the cultural leadership of Europe , setting the standards of judgment and taste , making French the international language of the cultivated ...
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... monarchy : " there must be milk for babes since the greatest part of mankind are and ever will be included in that lot . " Still , he was a trimmer - not a devoted believer in monarchy . He was contemptuous of Louis XIV , then at the ...
... monarchy : " there must be milk for babes since the greatest part of mankind are and ever will be included in that lot . " Still , he was a trimmer - not a devoted believer in monarchy . He was contemptuous of Louis XIV , then at the ...
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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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