Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 páginas 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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... interest on loans , the main source of Jacob's fortune . He testified that this was still a live issue by financing the expedition of a German churchman to the University of Bologna , to seek support of the thesis that charging inter ...
... interest on loans , the main source of Jacob's fortune . He testified that this was still a live issue by financing the expedition of a German churchman to the University of Bologna , to seek support of the thesis that charging inter ...
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... interest that may appear by contrast with the universal- ism of medieval Christendom . The " catholic " ideal , always confused by local , factional interests and cramped by bigotry or religious conceit , had become pretty nominal or ...
... interest that may appear by contrast with the universal- ism of medieval Christendom . The " catholic " ideal , always confused by local , factional interests and cramped by bigotry or religious conceit , had become pretty nominal or ...
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... interest was connected with the growing interest in technical knowledge , or more broadly with the spread of business habits of close reckoning . These gave some impetus to correspondingly useful developments in mathematics , notably ...
... interest was connected with the growing interest in technical knowledge , or more broadly with the spread of business habits of close reckoning . These gave some impetus to correspondingly useful developments in mathematics , notably ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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