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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... pope . Only the Hilde- brandine popes had already assured their own defeat . They had incidentally made reckless use of interdicts and excom- munications , damning whole nations in order to humble kings — awful spiritual weapons , but ...
... pope . Only the Hilde- brandine popes had already assured their own defeat . They had incidentally made reckless use of interdicts and excom- munications , damning whole nations in order to humble kings — awful spiritual weapons , but ...
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... pope and the French another . For forty years the rival popes exchanged anathemas , excommunicated each other's followers , and sold indulgences to finance warring expeditions . Even the ranks of sainthood were split , Catherine of ...
... pope and the French another . For forty years the rival popes exchanged anathemas , excommunicated each other's followers , and sold indulgences to finance warring expeditions . Even the ranks of sainthood were split , Catherine of ...
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... popes remain as notorious as they were in their own day for crime and corruption . Apart from their licentiousness , they seemed bent on proving Boccaccio's remark that the Roman Church must be of divine origin to stand the kind of ...
... popes remain as notorious as they were in their own day for crime and corruption . Apart from their licentiousness , they seemed bent on proving Boccaccio's remark that the Roman Church must be of divine origin to stand the kind 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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