Durant, Ariel

Das Zeitalter der Vernunft hebt an : eine Geschichte der europäischen Kultur zur Zeit Shakespeares, Bacons, Montaignes, Rembrandts, Galileis und Descartes' (1558-1648) by Will Durant( Book )

23 editions published between 1961 and 1992 in 7 languages and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of European civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648

Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant( Recording )

10 editions published between 1963 and 2015 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Age of Louis XIV is the biography of a period (1648-1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. Central to the book is the "Sun King" himself, Louis XIV, who ruled France for over seventy years, longer than almost any European ruler in history. He is the subject of a character study that runs through seven chapters, revealing the flesh and blood beneath the purple and the crown. From France the narrative passes to the Netherlands, which shows the Dutch opening their dikes to save their land from Louis XIV and sending William of Orange to become king of England and a leader of the European alliance against Louis' hegemony. In England we contemplate the heyday of virtue under the Puritans and study the character of Cromwell. We see Milton's passionate career as part of the vain effort to prevent the Stuart Restoration. We find Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," attend boisterous Restoration plays, we skim the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys, and we follow Jonathan Swift from genius to insanity. Crossing the North Sea we trace the tragic heroism of Charles XII of Sweden and the attempt of Peter the Great to lead Russia from barbarism to civilization. We accompany the noble Sobieski of Poland as he rescues Vienna from the Turks. We visit Italy and Spain. We see the Jews proscribed and impoverished in Europe but rising to riches in Amsterdam and following Sabbatai Zevi in a desperate hope of regaining Palestine and freedom. All this forms the background for the "intellectual adventure" of the European mind in its passage from superstition, mythology, and intolerance to education, science, and philosophy, for this was the age of Newton, Leibniz, and Spinoza. The book ends with the sunset of Le Roi Soleil. Louis dying defeated and repentant, begging his grandson and successor not to imitate his taste for splendor and war, and followed in his funeral by the insults of the crowd

Rousseau und die Revolution : Eine Kulturgeschichte Frankreichs, Deutschlands und Englands von 1756 bis 1789 und des übrigen Europa von 1715 bis 1789 by Will Durant( Book )

9 editions published in 1969 in German and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Das Zeitalter Ludwigs XIV. Eine Geschichte der Europäischen Kultur zur Zeit Pascals, Molières, Cromwells, Miltons, Peters des Grossen, Newtons und Spinozas, 1648-1715 by Will Durant( Book )

7 editions published in 1966 in German and held by 62 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The age of reason begins : a history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648 by Will Durant( )

6 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 61 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This seventh volume of Will and Ariel Durant's series, "The story of civilization," chronicles the history of European civilization from 1558 to 1648

The age of reason begins, 1558-1648 by Will Durant( Book )

1 edition published in 1961 in English and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Das Zeitalter Voltaires : eine Kulturgeschichte Mittel- und Westeuropas von 1715 bis 1756 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Konfliktes zwischen Religion und Philosophie by Will Durant( Book )

4 editions published in 1967 in German and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The age of Napoleon : a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815 by Will Durant( )

5 editions published between 1975 and 2015 in English and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel DurantThe Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of The Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the French Revolution--from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the king; the revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just--all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated; Napoleon's meteoric rise--from provincial Corsican military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history; Napoleon's fall--his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe; the birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new era

Europa und der Osten im Zeitalter der Aufklärung by Will Durant( Book )

2 editions published in 1982 in German and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide