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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... possible uses of adversity that the Dark Ages eventually took advantage of . As the Roman Empire crumbled , provinces could no longer depend on the central administration but had to shift for themselves . In the loosely organized ...
... possible uses of adversity that the Dark Ages eventually took advantage of . As the Roman Empire crumbled , provinces could no longer depend on the central administration but had to shift for themselves . In the loosely organized ...
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... possible and profitable to clear and till , but to attract the needed men they had to offer special inducements and could no longer bind these men to the soil ; hence there grew up villages or " new towns " occupied by tenants instead ...
... possible and profitable to clear and till , but to attract the needed men they had to offer special inducements and could no longer bind these men to the soil ; hence there grew up villages or " new towns " occupied by tenants instead ...
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... possible the applied science or technology of the future , but at this stage it was the pupil ; the inven- tions came first , advances in theory were made possible by data and systematic methods developed in technological practice . In ...
... possible the applied science or technology of the future , but at this stage it was the pupil ; the inven- tions came first , advances in theory were made possible by data and systematic methods developed in technological practice . In ...
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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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