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Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne was a contemporary of Shakespeare who, after having played his part in France's terrible wars of religion, retired to hi…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume I
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Mandell Creighton
Volume I of the "History of the Papacy" by the Anglican Lord Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, deals with the popes, princes, a…
Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV
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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II
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Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…
Early Greek Philosophy
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Alfred William Benn
"Man is the measure of all things," said the early Greek philosopher, Protagoras of Abdera. It was in this spirit of humanistic se…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
The Later Middle Ages: A History of Western Europe 1254-1494
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Robert Balmain Mowat
The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and…
Hobbes
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Leslie Stephen
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
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Arthur M. Curteis
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610
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Emmeline Tanner
Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III
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Mandell Creighton
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History
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Lionel Cecil Jane
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815
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Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume IV
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Mandell Creighton
Volume Four of Creighton's "History of the Papacy" opens with the election of Pope Paul II, whom the author describes as "a m…
A Greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus
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B. H. Liddell Hart
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (c. 236-c.183 B.C.) was one of the greatest military tacticians and strategists of all time. Only in his …
A History of the Middle Ages
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Dana Carleton Munro
This overview of the 9th through the 13th centuries in Europe and the Middle East begins with the empire of Charles the Great, which extende…