Judgements on History and Historians 0415412935, 9780415412933, 9781136775758, 1136775757

Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European

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Judgements on History and Historians
 0415412935, 9780415412933, 9781136775758, 1136775757

Table of contents :
11. On the Middle Ages12. On Early Christianity
13. Christianity as a Martyr Religion
14. On Asceticism and Its Position
15. The Spread of Nicene Christianity
16. The Church
17. Julian and the Prospect for a Restoration of Paganism
18. Western European Arianism and the Jews
19. The Breakup of the Western Empire
20. The Achievement of Clovis I
21. Mohammed as the Founder of a Religion, and Islam
22. The Despotism of Islam
23. Islam and Its Effects
24. The Two Main Realities for the Papacy of the Eighth Century
25. Charlemagne
26. The Normans. 27. The Byzantine Empire and Its Mission28. On the Iconoclastic Controversy
29. On the Crusades
30. The Sorrows and Sacrifices of the Crusades
31. On the Evaluation of the Later Middle Ages
III. History from 1450 to 1598
32. The Period from 1450 to 1598 and the Nineteenth Century's View of It
33. England in the Late Middle Ages
34. On Richard III
35. On the Wars of the Roses and on Scotland
36. Burgundy
37. Charles the Bold of Burgundy
38. France and the Idea of Unification
39. Louis XI
40. The German Imperial Power Under Frederick III
41. The Ottomans. 42. The Republic of Florence43. On the War of 1494
44. On the Power of the Papacy
45. Italy and the Rest of Europe
46. Spain and Portugal
47. The Beginning of the Reformation: General Considerations
48. On Luther
49. On the German Reformation: Its Causes and Spiritual Consequences
50. On the Reformation: Protestantism and Tradition --
the Intolerance of the New Doctrine
51. On the Reformation: the Establishment of So-called 'spiritual Freedom'
52. On the Reformation: the Masses, Their Motives and Consequences --
Luther. 53. On the Reformation: Governments --
Confiscation of Property and Dogmatism --
Church and State54. The Origin of the Territorial Churches
55. On the Reformation After 1526: the Inevitable Caesaropapism
56. On the Coming of the Reformation: the Reformation and the Fate of Art
57. On the Situation of the Catholic Church: the Direct Effect of the Reformation
58. On Zwingli's Later Period
59. Charles V and Francis I
60. On Charles V
61. On Henry VIII
62. Gustavus Vasa
63. The Community of the Elect
64. On Calvin
65. On Protestantism in France
66. German Culture Around 1555.

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