Tag: world history

Thomas Paine: Written by: Irving Brant: Member, Advisory Board, James Madison Papers, University of Chicago. Council Member, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1959–62. Author of James Madison (6 vol.) and others Small, wiry Thomas Paine was the "firebrand of the American Revolution." ...

Gothic Art And Architecture Andrew Henry Robert Martindale: Professor of Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1974–95. Author of Gothic Art and others. A history of the Gothic period of Art and Architecture Gothic Art is concerned with the painting, sculpture, architecture, and...

Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgencesby Dr. Martin Luther, 1517 These Theses resulted in the excommunication of Martin Luther, and the ideas contained in this document gave impetus to the Reformation. Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to lig...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VI Notwithstanding the deranged condition of the Milanese, no furtherattempts were made by the senate of Venice for twenty years. They had not yetacquired that decided love of war and conquest which soon began to influencethem against all the rules of...

The Byzantine Empire, Part One Eastern Europe, And Russia To 1600 Donald MacGillivray Nicol: Koraës Professor Emeritus of Byzantine and Modern Greek History, Language, and Literature, King's College, University of London. Director, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1...

The State The Earliest Forms Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow Part II. 18. Of the theories of the origination of government in individual lawgiving or in divine dictate, it is sufficient to say that the one exaggerates the part played by human choice, and the other the part played by man's im...

Sumerian Language Four periods of Sumerian can be distinguished: Archaic Sumerian, Old or Classical Sumerian, New Sumerian, and Post-Sumerian. Archaic Sumerian covered a period from about 3100 BC, when the first Sumerian records make their appearance, down to about 2500 BC. The earliest Sumerian wri...

A great task faced Marcus Aurelius when he became the Roman emperor in AD 161, as successor to his uncle, Emperor Antonius Pius. Generations of luxury had made the patricians, or nobles, weak and selfish. The middle class was disappearing, and the working class was being reduced to a state of slaver...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IVA new generation had risen up in Lombardy since the peace of Constance,and the prerogatives reserved by that treaty to the empire were so seldomcalled into action, that few cities were disposed to recollect theirexistence. They denominated themselves...

An April Fool's Tale? April Fool's Day During the 16th century, the calendar had become so inaccurate that Pope Gregory VIII decided to order a recalculation of the correct dates. As part of this reform, he decreed that the celebration of the new year would no longer begin on April 1, as had been th...

Jews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionAuthor: Merivale, CharlesJews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionA.D. 132 IntroductionThe successful revolt of the Maccabees against the bloody persecutionsof the Assyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, about B.C. 164, inaugurated aglo...

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke ...