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The deepest and oldest layer of European religion is almost unknown today, and yet it governs all subsequent history. This is the Indo-European hearth cult, the subject of The Ancient Family. Here we get a picture of the most traditionalist, nationalist, patriarchal religion imaginable, of a people gathered around a sacred fire, worshipping its ancestors, jealous of its gods, and sufficient unto itself. Taken from books I-II of Fustel's moment...

This classic reemerges and is essential to any well-formed understanding of where the notion of city and political ordering are derived, as well as the role of religion in politics and the reliance of law on custom and family.

Una delle opere più esaustive e originali sulla storia delle civiltà classiche. Fustel de Coulanges riuscì, attenendosi saldamente alle fonti classiche, a gettare una luce diversa sugli elementi primordiali che portarono prima l'antica Grecia, e poi Roma, alla grandezza nei secoli. Quegli elementi erano la fondamentale unità familiare e razziale dei gruppi fondatori. La perdita di quella unità, e della religione che la celebrava, ha portato og...

In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization: the Indo-European domestic cult. With a formidable command of primary sources, he shows this archaic religion to be the engine behind the social developments of the ancient world from remote pre-history down to late antiquity. This is the story of the descent of the traditional social order par excellence into something approximating liberalism...

The Ancient City is Fustel de Coulanges' superb investigation of life and living during classical antiquity, a culture he felt rested and flourished upon religious observance.This fascinating history offers the reader an idea of how day-to-day life in Ancient Rome and Greece evolved and was sustained for centuries. Coulanges covers each major topic in sequence, beginning with the crucial assertion that religion what was held classical life tog...

bTitle:/b Recherches sur quelques proble`mes d'histoire. 1º. Le colonat romain. 2º. Du re¿gime des terres en Germanie. 3º. De la marche germanique. 4º. L'organisation judiciaire dans le royaume des Francs.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages a...

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