In perfectly simple language--which Helen aged sixteen, or anyone else could understand without perplexity--Belloc explains the intricacies of economics and what is meant by such terms as wealt...więcej »
Excellent analysis of how the Catholic faith transformed the Roman Empire into the Christendom of the Middle Ages. Many modern historians frame this as a 'fall' of the Empire and something new r...więcej »
Waterloo (Illustrated) by Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc's history of the battle at Waterloo and its ultimate meaning and the lasting effect it has had on Western Europe.CONTENTS...więcej »
Hilaire Belloc's Europe and the Faith will be of interest to all those - Catholic and non-Catholic equally - who value the contributions of European Civilisation and see possibilities in a United E...więcej »
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never f...więcej »
“You have been told ‘Christianity (a word, by the way, quite un- historical) crept into Rome as she declined, and hastened that decline.’ That is bad history. Rather accept thi...więcej »
In this collection of short biographies Hilaire Belloc, one of the great Catholic historians of the twentieth century, shares his views on the principal characters of the Protestant Reformation,...więcej »
Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements to have affected Christian Civilization: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam), Albigensianism (Cathar), The Reformation (Protesta...więcej »
'It has been a series of cycles invariably following the same steps. The Jew comes to an alien society, at first in small numbers. He thrives. His presence is not resented. He is rather treated ...więcej »
“The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Their object is rather to lay, if that be...więcej »