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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... Classical Tradition " We are like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants , ” said Bernard of Chartres in the twelfth century . " We see more things than the ancients and things more distant , but this is due neither to the sharp- ness ...
... Classical Tradition " We are like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants , ” said Bernard of Chartres in the twelfth century . " We see more things than the ancients and things more distant , but this is due neither to the sharp- ness ...
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... classical culture . By now we can see that their art was essentially original , not truly classical , while schol- ars have thoroughly discredited the old textbook theory that the main cause of the Renaissance was the influx of Greek ...
... classical culture . By now we can see that their art was essentially original , not truly classical , while schol- ars have thoroughly discredited the old textbook theory that the main cause of the Renaissance was the influx of Greek ...
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... classical inspiration . Ghiberti collected many marble and bronze relics of antiquity for close study , while Brunelleschi and Donatello spent several years together in Rome poring over its ruins ; like most of the artists after them ...
... classical inspiration . Ghiberti collected many marble and bronze relics of antiquity for close study , while Brunelleschi and Donatello spent several years together in Rome poring over its ruins ; like most of the artists after them ...
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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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