Erasmus age reformation

Buy Erasmus And The Age Of Reformation, Johan Huizinga, 2001 for R90.00

All 9 in very good condition - The two missing volumes are The age of faith (# 4) and the age of Napoleon (# 11) - This lot must be picked up in Pretoria as they are going to cost too much to post - Contains the following:- Vol 1 Our Oriental Heritage             Vol 2 The Life of Greece              Vol 3 Caesar and Christ             V ol 5 The Renaissance                   Vol 6 The Reformation                 Vol 7 The Age of Reason Begins     Vol 8 The Age of Louis XIV              Vol 9 The Age of Voltaire             Vol 10 Rousseau and Revolution     >>>       William James Durant (1885/11/05-1981/11/07) a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher, is best known for the eleven-volume  The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant (1898/05/10-1981/10/25) and published between 1935 and 1975.   T he superb organization of their books, combined with an eminently readable style, won the Durants millions of fans.   Ariel and Will Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of  The Story of Civilization. In 1977 they were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford and Ariel was nominated as "Woman of the Year" by the city of Los Angeles. The Durants' autobiography  A Dual Autobiography  was published in 1978.  (Masonic references appear in five of the eleven volumes.)   

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor. Around 1500, it took on a more formal structure with the establishment of powerful institutions--such as the Reichstag and Imperial Chamber Court--that would endure more or less intact until the empire's dissolution by Napoleon in 1806. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides a concise history of the Holy Roman Empire, presenting an entirely new interpretation of the empire's political culture and remarkably durable institutions. Rather than comparing the empire to modern states or associations like the European Union, Stollberg-Rilinger shows how it was a political body unlike any other--it had no standing army, no clear boundaries, no general taxation or bureaucracy. She describes a heterogeneous association based on tradition and shared purpose, bound together by personal loyalty and reciprocity, and constantly reenacted by solemn rituals. In a narrative spanning three turbulent centuries, she takes readers from the reform era at the dawn of the sixteenth century to the crisis of the Reformation, from the consolidation of the Peace of Augsburg to the destructive fury of the Thirty Years' War, from the conflict between Austria and Prussia to the empire's downfall in the age of the French Revolution. Authoritative and accessible, The Holy Roman Empire is an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of Europe. Features Summary A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor... Author Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Author), Yair Mintzker (Translator), Yair Mintzker (Preface by) Publisher Princeton University Press Release date 20180925 Pages 164 ISBN 0-691-17911-5 ISBN 13 978-0-691-17911-7