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... mediaeval Italy both anticipated her . Each of these earlier societies was divided into a number of city - states , which were no more diminutive , in proportion to their respective worlds , than is a European national state in ...
... mediaeval Italy both anticipated her . Each of these earlier societies was divided into a number of city - states , which were no more diminutive , in proportion to their respective worlds , than is a European national state in ...
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... mediaeval Catholic Church in a not yet divided Western Christendom are , alike , in the main line of our Western tradition , while the modern established churches in Protestant countries have been , on the whole , something exceptional ...
... mediaeval Catholic Church in a not yet divided Western Christendom are , alike , in the main line of our Western tradition , while the modern established churches in Protestant countries have been , on the whole , something exceptional ...
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... mediaeval " age ; and in the two permanently conquered territories of Sicily and An- dalusia the Islamic influence upon the local Western " suc- cessor - states " of the Arab Empire was naturally still more wide and deep . Yet this was ...
... mediaeval " age ; and in the two permanently conquered territories of Sicily and An- dalusia the Islamic influence upon the local Western " suc- cessor - states " of the Arab Empire was naturally still more wide and deep . Yet this was ...
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CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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