This series has two easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Power Corrupts Rienzi.IntroductionWhen for nearly forty years Rome had
Archives for October 2020
Complete Failure of Logistical Planning
Today's installment concludes Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade,our selection from History of the Crusades by Joseph François Michaud published in
Frontenac Versus Duchesneau
Having given the principal charges of Duchesneau against Frontenac, it is time to give those of Frontenac against Duchesneau.Our special project
The Last Crusaders Embark
The fleet set sail on the 4th of July, 1270, and in a few days arrived in the road of Cagliari. Here the council of the counts and barons was
The Last Crusaders Gather
As religious enthusiasm was not sufficiently strong to make men forget their worldly interests, many nobles who had taken the cross entertained great
Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade
IntroductionLouis IX, King of France, 1226-1270, was at once a monarch of great ability and a man of intense religious spirit. Naturally, in such a
Goethe’s Legacy
Today's installment concludes Goethe and the Intellectual Revolt of Germany,our selection from German Thought During the Last Two Hundred Years by
Hinting at the Theory of Evolution
Palermo, during a walk in the public garden amid the Southern vegetation, revealed to him the law of the metamorphosis of plants.Continuing Goethe
Nature’s Limits to Happiness
While Goethe lived outside the struggle for life, outside the competition and contact of practical activity, in the contemplation of nature and art,