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After Forty Years (Hardcover)
Princeton University Class of 1865, Charles Freeman 1844 Richardson
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A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the
fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution
thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and
refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the
Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts,
fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire
founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the
High Middle Ages, universities were founded and the study of
philosophy was revived. Renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman
thought provided the intellectual impetus for the Renaissance of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose ideas – aesthetic,
political and scientific – were disseminated across Europe by the
invention of the printing press. Equally momentous was Europe's
encounter with the New World, and the resulting maritime supremacy
which conferred global reach on Europe's merchants and colonists.
Vivid in detail and informed by the latest scholarship, The
Awakening is powered not by the fate of kings or the clash of arms
but by deeper currents of thought, inquiry and discovery, which
first recover and then surpass the achievements of classical
antiquity, and lead the West to the threshold of the Age of Reason.
Charles Freeman takes the reader on an enthralling journey, and
provides us with a vital key to understanding the world we live in
today. Praise for The Awakening: 'The Awakening is a work of
serious scholarship by an author who has clearly been everywhere,
seen everything and read voraciously. But it is also a work written
with great elan and, given its scope, undertaken with considerable
courage' Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures,
1988-2005 'The Awakening recounts the slow evolution of Western
thought that restored legitimacy to independent examination and
analysis, that eventually led to a celebration, albeit a cautious
one, of reason over blind faith.' Stan Prager 'The Awakening is a
very timely book and an excellently written and produced one.
Freeman is a good host, a superb narrator and tells his story with
aplomb' International Times
A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing
intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of
Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman
Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek
city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius
Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the
famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions
of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the
centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a
distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists,
geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts
of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy
and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual
'interludes' that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and
richly influential lives. Like the author's The Awakening, The
Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale: the
story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry
across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second
century BC to the start of the fifth century AD.
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the
fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution
thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and
refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the
Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts,
fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire
founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the
High Middle Ages, universities were founded and the study of
philosophy was revived. Renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman
thought provided the intellectual impetus for the Renaissance of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose ideas - aesthetic,
political and scientific - were disseminated across Europe by the
invention of the printing press. Equally momentous was Europe's
encounter with the New World, and the resulting maritime supremacy
which conferred global reach on Europe's merchants and colonists.
Vivid in detail and informed by the latest scholarship, The
Awakening is powered not by the fate of kings or the clash of arms
but by deeper currents of thought, inquiry and discovery, which
first recover and then surpass the achievements of classical
antiquity, and lead the West to the threshold of the Age of Reason.
Charles Freeman takes the reader on an enthralling journey, and
provides us with a vital key to understanding the world we live in
today.
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Greeks (Paperback)
Charles Freeman
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China has emerged as an economic powerhouse (projected to have the
largest economy in the world in a little over a decade) and is
taking an ever-increasing role on the world stage. China's Rise:
Challenges and Opportunities will help the United States and the
rest of the world better comprehend the facts and dynamics
underpinning China's rise-an understanding that becomes more and
more important with each passing day. Additionally, the authors
suggest actions both China and the United States can take that will
not only maximize the opportunities for China's constructive
integration into the international community but also help form a
domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such
policies. Filled with facts for policymakers, this much anticipated
book's narrative-driven, accessible style will appeal to the
general reader. This book is unique in that it analyzes the
authoritative data on China's economy, foreign and domestic policy,
and national security. The expert judgments in this book paint a
picture of a China confronting domestic challenges that are in many
ways side effects of its economic successes, while simultaneously
trying to take advantage of the foreign policy benefits of those
same successes.China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities from The
China Balance Sheet Project, a joint, multiyear project of the
Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Peterson
Institute, discusses China's military modernization, China's
increasing soft power influence in Asia and around the world,
China's policy toward Taiwan, domestic political development,
Beijing's political relations with China's provincial and municipal
authorities, corruption and social unrest, rebalancing China's
economic growth, the exchange rate controversy, energy and the
environment, industrial policy, trade disputes, and investment
issues. This book is part of the CSIS-IIE China Balance Sheet
project. For more information about this project, please visit
www.chinabalancesheet.org.
This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the
extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a
familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested
today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity
shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies
surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to
resolve them. Charles Freeman's meticulous historical account of
Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century A.D. to
the emergence of Western and Eastern churches by A.D. 600 reveals
that it was a distinctive, vibrant, and incredibly diverse movement
brought into order at the cost of intellectual and spiritual
vitality. Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable
"triumph" of a single distinct Christianity, Freeman shows that
there was a host of competing Christianities, many of which had as
much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated.
Looking with fresh eyes at the historical record, Freeman explores
the ambiguities and contradictions that underlay Christian theology
and the unavoidable compromises enforced in the name of doctrine.
Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian
church underwent-from sporadic niches of Christian communities
surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned
alliance with the state-Charles Freeman shows how freedom of
thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith.
The imposition of "correct belief," religious uniformity, and an
institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both
consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the difficulties in
establishing the Christian church, he examines its relationship
with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society,
and he offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and
the church fathers and emperors.
A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's
adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the
subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western
civilization.
When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD,
he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to
have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of
the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course
from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of
the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule
of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of
Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only
a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the
emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from
the effects of Constantine's decision, yet the effects of his
establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us,
in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious,
this is a major work of history.
A richly textured history spanning a thousand years of holy relics
across Europe Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly
morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and
items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were
thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might
intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive
history in English of the rise of relic cults, Charles Freeman
takes readers on a vivid, fast-paced journey from Constantinople to
the northern Isles of Scotland over the course of a millennium. In
Holy Bones, Holy Dust, Freeman illustrates that the pervasiveness
and variety of relics answered very specific needs of ordinary
people across a darkened Europe under threat of political
upheavals, disease, and hellfire. But relics were not only
venerated-they were traded, collected, lost, stolen, duplicated,
and destroyed. They were bargaining chips, good business and good
propaganda, politically appropriated across Europe, and even used
to wield military power. Freeman examines an expansive array of
relics, showing how the mania for these objects deepens our
understanding of the medieval world and why these relics continue
to capture our imagination.
China has emerged as an economic powerhouse (projected to have the
largest economy in the world in a little over a decade) and is
taking an ever-increasing role on the world stage. China's Rise:
Challenges and Opportunities will help the United States and the
rest of the world better comprehend the facts and dynamics
underpinning China's rise-an understanding that becomes more and
more important with each passing day. Additionally, the authors
suggest actions both China and the United States can take that will
not only maximize the opportunities for China's constructive
integration into the international community but also help form a
domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such
policies. Filled with facts for policymakers, this much anticipated
book's narrative-driven, accessible style will appeal to the
general reader. This book is unique in that it analyzes the
authoritative data on China's economy, foreign and domestic policy,
and national security. The expert judgments in this book paint a
picture of a China confronting domestic challenges that are in many
ways side effects of its economic successes, while simultaneously
trying to take advantage of the foreign policy benefits of those
same successes.China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities from The
China Balance Sheet Project, a joint, multiyear project of the
Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Peterson
Institute, discusses China's military modernization, China's
increasing soft power influence in Asia and around the world,
China's policy toward Taiwan, domestic political development,
Beijing's political relations with China's provincial and municipal
authorities, corruption and social unrest, rebalancing China's
economic growth, the exchange rate controversy, energy and the
environment, industrial policy, trade disputes, and investment
issues. This book is part of the CSIS-IIE China Balance Sheet
project. For more information about this project, please visit
www.chinabalancesheet.org.
Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general
histories of the ancient world, having sold more than 80,000 copies
in its first two editions. It is written for the general reader and
the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a
reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period.
Beginning with the early Middle Eastern civilizations of Sumer, and
continuing right through to the Islamic invasions and the birth of
modern Europe after the collapse of the Roman empire, the book
ranges beyond political history to cover art and architecture,
philosophy, literature, society, and economy. A wide range of maps,
illustrations, and photographs complements the text. This third
edition has been extensively revised to appeal to the general
reader with several chapters completely rewritten and a great deal
of new material added, including a new selection of images.
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