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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... learning , and the liberal arts , and an in- defatigable collector of the great works of pagan antiquity available in his time - works still suspect to the pious , as they later were to Pope Gregory the Great ; except for his zeal many ...
... learning , and the liberal arts , and an in- defatigable collector of the great works of pagan antiquity available in his time - works still suspect to the pious , as they later were to Pope Gregory the Great ; except for his zeal many ...
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... learning they so eagerly sought , the model they set themselves to emulate . The ferment of the century rose directly out of a self - conscious effort to recover their classical heritage , and it got headier as they succeeded . “ There ...
... learning they so eagerly sought , the model they set themselves to emulate . The ferment of the century rose directly out of a self - conscious effort to recover their classical heritage , and it got headier as they succeeded . “ There ...
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... learning , " and remained aloof from politics as from popular movements . ( He was even unhappy over the swelling flood of printed books , which he thought endangered good learning . ) More , schooled in the civic humanism of Florence ...
... learning , " and remained aloof from politics as from popular movements . ( He was even unhappy over the swelling flood of printed books , which he thought endangered good learning . ) More , schooled in the civic humanism of Florence ...
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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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