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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... medieval theology widened the gap between ideal and popular Christianity . Popular religion was increasingly de- graded by such gross superstition as the cult of holy relics , a craze fed by the saints themselves . ( When St. Thomas ...
... medieval theology widened the gap between ideal and popular Christianity . Popular religion was increasingly de- graded by such gross superstition as the cult of holy relics , a craze fed by the saints themselves . ( When St. Thomas ...
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... medieval view of rights as exclusive privileges , implying a right to oppress others . Among their earliest creations was a proletariat — the peasants who escaped to the town . There is evidence that these men paid for their freedom by ...
... medieval view of rights as exclusive privileges , implying a right to oppress others . Among their earliest creations was a proletariat — the peasants who escaped to the town . There is evidence that these men paid for their freedom by ...
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... medieval government was never in fact a res pub- lica , based on free consent of the governed . The " community " ideal- ized in medieval theory was always the same hierarchy , in which the great majority had no political voice and were ...
... medieval government was never in fact a res pub- lica , based on free consent of the governed . The " community " ideal- ized in medieval theory was always the same hierarchy , in which the great majority had no political voice and were ...
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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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