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... culture history , " it is as an historian of culture that he is most valuable . His work is a locus classicus for much of our knowledge of the intellectual nature of the fourth century : its beliefs , superstitions , its pseudo- science ...
... culture history , " it is as an historian of culture that he is most valuable . His work is a locus classicus for much of our knowledge of the intellectual nature of the fourth century : its beliefs , superstitions , its pseudo- science ...
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... culture that Iceland accepted Christianity peacefully and by popular vote , and was saved from having it imposed by the sword . The social and religious system of the Danes could not maintain itself in opposition to the influence of the ...
... culture that Iceland accepted Christianity peacefully and by popular vote , and was saved from having it imposed by the sword . The social and religious system of the Danes could not maintain itself in opposition to the influence of the ...
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... culture of the age , just as that culture was an emanation of the whole life of the people . This is what Leonardo Bruni had striven to show in his biographies of Dante and Petrarch , and his message was perceived and understood . The ...
... culture of the age , just as that culture was an emanation of the whole life of the people . This is what Leonardo Bruni had striven to show in his biographies of Dante and Petrarch , and his message was perceived and understood . The ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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