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Excerpt from A History of Freedom of Thought It is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds of his experience and the power of his imagination. But this natural liberty of private thinking is of little value. It is unsatisfactory and even painful to the thinker himself, if he is not permitted ...

Excerpt from A Students History of Greece With the consent of Professor J. B. Bury, I have prepared an edition of his " History of Greece for Beginners" which may serve as a text-book for Secondary Schools in this country. In preparing this edition, I have confined myself chiefly to excision, although in places a somewhat different arrangement of material has been adopted. No statement of fact has been changed, and as far as possible the auth...

Excerpt from The Imperial Administrative System in the Ninth Century: With a Revised Text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst rep...

Excerpt from A History of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. 2: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A. D. To 800 A. D.) The absolutism of Justinian extended to the ecclesiastical world, and in church as well as in state history he occupies a position of ecumenical importance. He was a sort of imperial pontiff, and this Caesaropapism, as it has been called, represents the fulfilment of the policy which Constantius tried and failed to realise. About the Pub...

Excerpt from The Ancient Greek Historians: Harvard Lectures This volume consists of the Lane Lectures which I had the honour of delivering at Harvard Uni versity in Spring 1908, under the auspices of the Classical Department. They are printed very nearly as they were originally written, though some of my kind hearers, if they should glance through, may detect a good many passages which were omitted in the Lecture Hall. The book amounts to a h...

Excerpt from Romances of Chivalry on Greek Soil: Being the Romanes Lecture for 1911, Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, 25 May 1911 Franks both the idea of a knight and the fantastic ideal of chivalrous adventure? I think not. The kavallarz'oz' of these romances have a different lineage. In prowess and manliness they rival the knights of the West but they constitute no order, there is no institution of knighthood, none of the distinctive c...

Excerpt from A History of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. 1: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A. D. To 800 A. D.)The history of the fifth century is better known, and has been more thoroughly worked up than that of its successors. I have therefore treated it with comparative brevity, and omitted many of the details, which the reader may find in the works of Gibbon and Mn, Hodgkin. In fact, I originally intended to treat the dismemberment of the Empire...

Excerpt from An Inaugural Lecture: Delivered in the Divinity School, Cambridge on January 26, 1903 In saying that I come before you to-day with no little trepidation, I am not uttering a mere conventional profession of diffidence. There are very real reasons for misgiving. My predecessor told you how formidable he found this chair, illuminated as it is by the lustre of the distinguished historian whom he succeeded. But if it was formidable th...

Excerpt from The Life of St. Patrick: And His Place in History It should be needless to say that, in dealing with such fragmentary material, reconstructions and hypotheses are inevitable. In ancient and mediaeval history, as in physical science, hypotheses, founded on a critical examination of the data, are necessary for the advancement of knowledge. The recon structions may fall to-morrow, but, if they are legitimate, they will not have been...

Excerpt from A History of the Eastern Roman Empire: From the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I., (A. D. 802-867) It would not be just to the leading men who guided public affairs during this period, such as Theophilus and Bardas, to attempt to draw their portraits. The data are entirely insufficient. Even in the case of Photius, who has left a considerable literary legacy, while we can appreciate, perhaps duly, his historical signific...

Excerpt from The Hellenistic Age: Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization Treated It is at least arguable, in the case of abler men, whether the three years which follow graduation be not as important as the three years which precede it. For those pursuing an academic career this can hardly be in question. Few go far in that career, who can not point back to some kind of inspiration, personal or impersonal, which at this critical period turned th...

Most people who live in open societies, especially in the West, take freedom of thought and the right to express that thought for granted. But through most of history, independent thinking, outside of the framework of social or religious convention, was discouraged and often actively persecuted. It is only recently that rational critiques of traditional perspectives have become an accepted part of public discourse. The struggle for independenc...

During the two centuries in which they had been a forbidden sect the Christians had claimed toleration on the ground that religious belief is voluntary and not a thing which can be enforced. When their faith became the predominant creed and had the power of the State behind it, they abandoned this view. -from "Reason in Prison (The Middle Ages)" Humanity has always enjoyed freedom of thought-but the freedom to express those thoughts, howev...

This 1912 work argues that the 'Amorian epoch' of the ninth century should not be overlooked in Byzantine history.

Volume 1 of classic history that chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (A.D. 395) to the death of Justinian (A.D. 565).

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation. For the earthly Progress of humanity is the general test to which social aims and theories are submitted as a matter of course.

This 1911 work is an edition of and commentary on a ninth-century guide to Byzantine precedence and court hierarchy.

This two-volume 1889 work examines Byzantine history from the division of the empire in 395 to 800.

This two-volume 1889 work examines Byzantine history from the division of the empire in 395 to 800.

In "the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization, " J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography, the pattern of the hellenization of Rome, and changing Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism. E. A. Barber's essay, "Alexandrian Literature, " deals with the characteristic styles of the period, Alexandrian poetry, and the new prose forms. Besides the scientific and learned writing it is known f...