Brian Hodgkinson qualified as a Chartered Accountant, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. During a long teaching career at Sussex University, Dulwich College and St James Schools in London, he developed a strong and diverse interest in writing, which involved studying History, Economics, Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and epic literature.

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• Volume 1IntroductionPart 1: FoundationsChapter 1: A Time to Live The Nature of HistoryChapter 2: The Ages of Man The Great Cycles Part 2: Egyptian CivilisationChapter 3: God Beyond All Name Egyptian Philosophy and Religion Chapter 4: Giants in the Earth The Old Kingdom Chapter 5: Renewing Births The Middle and New Kingdoms and the Decline of Egypt Part 3: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Homeric CultureChapter 6: Minotaur Theseus and Ancient Crete Chapter 7: Agamemnon's Return Mycenaean Society Chapter 8: One is the Race of Gods and Men Culture and Religion Chapter 9: Since Peace is in the Land The Greek Polis Chapter 10:The Crown of Wild Olive The Olympic Games Chapter 11: Obedient to their Laws Lycurgus & Sparta Chapter 12: Model Cities Colonisation & Solon Chapter 13: The Tomb of the Body Pythagoras; Egyptian & Eastern Influences Chapter 14: The Gates of Heaven Reforms of Cleisthenes & the Battle of Marathon Chapter 15: Triumph of the Greeks The Persian War Chapter 16: Alliance into Empire The Delian League Chapter 17: The Classical Moment Athenian Culture Chapter 18: The Saving Bulwark Pericles Chapter 19: A Vision of Hidden Things The Philosophy of Unity Chapter 20: Death of a Culture The Peloponnesian War Part 4: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Hellenistic CultureChapter 21: A Draught of Hemlock The Teaching of SocratesChapter 22: Scourge of Tyranny The Career of Epaminondas Chapter 23: Philosopher Kings Plato's Political Philosophy Chapter 24: Son of Zeus Alexander the Great Chapter 25: Our Fathers' Mingled Blood The Foundation of Rome Chapter 26: Sacred Fire Numa PompiliusChapter 27: Brave Days of Old The Kings of RomeChapter 28: Destined to Grow Great The Republic Conquers ItalyChapter 29: Natural Justice Growth of Roman Government and LawChapter 30: Tempered in the Fire War with CarthageChapter 31: The Fetters of Greece The Roman Conquest of GreeceChapter 32: Land and Liberty The Gracchi's Land Reform Chapter 33: Cruel Men of Rome Decline of the Republic Chapter 34: But One Only Man Julius Caesar Chapter 35: A Better Age of Gold The Rule of Augustus Part 5: The Rise of Christian CivilisationChapter 36: I Am the True Vine The Life of Jesus ChristChapter 37: When Uricon the City Stood Roman BritainChapter 38: Care of the Churches St Paul and the Early Church Chapter 39: One True Nobility The Empire from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius Chapter 40: Saints and Martyrs The Growth of the Church to the Council of Chalcedon Chapter 41: Long Autumn of Empire The Fall of the Western Empire and the Creation of Constantinople BibliographyIndexIndex of MapsVolume 2AcknowledgementImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: The Creation of Medieval CultureChapter 1: The Once and Future King King ArthurChapter 2: A Being Self-sufficient BoethiusChapter 3: The Way Found by Us The Empire of JustinianChapter 4: One Sacred Work The Beginning of MonasticismChapter 5: Servant of the Servants of God Gregory the Great Chapter 6: Beneath the Banner of Muhammad The Rise of IslamChapter 7: The Bonds of Kinship The Nature of the Anglo-SaxonsChapter 8: A Host of Heroes The Growth of Unity in Anglo-Saxon EnglandPart 2: The Carolingian RenaissanceChapter 9: New Athens The Age of CharlemagneChapter 10:The Greatest Treasure-giver of all the Kings Alfred the GreatChapter 11:The Peace of all Christians Otto the GreatChapter 12:The Annihilation of Hades The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian EmperorsChapter 13:Cruel Injustice Feudalism in the Eleventh CenturyChapter 14:Redemption John Scotus Eriugena and Anselm Part 3: The Twelfth Century RenaissanceChapter 15:The Royal and Ancient Seat The Character of Paris in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 16:How Shall a Man not Sing? The Awakening of ReasonChapter 17:The Land which He had Promised Them Economic Revival in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 18:Under God and the Law Henry II and the Common Law Chapter 19:Soldiers of Christ Chivalry and the Crusades Chapter 20:The Imitation of Christ Crisis in the Medieval ChurchChapter 21:The Law Makes the King Magna Carta and the English Parliament Chapter 22:La Douce France St Louis Part 4: The Decline of Medieval CultureChapter 23:The Love that Moves the Sun Dante and Late Medieval Italy Chapter 24:Houmout; Ich Dene The Black Prince and the Hundred Years' War Chapter 25:The Roots of the Truth Faith Wycliffe and Hus Chapter 26:The Dance of Death The End of the Middle AgesBibliographyIndexVolume 3AcknowledgementsImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The City of Good Government The Master Builders of Quattrocento FlorenceChapter 2: Rejoice in the Present The Sources of the Florentine RenaissanceChapter 3: At the Feet of the Master The Growth of the RenaissanceChapter 4: The New Found Land Exploration and Land DevelopmentChapter 5: The Way of Reason Religious and Social Conflict in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 6: This Side of the Sea and Beyond The Siege of Malta 1565Chapter 7: The Melody of our Sweet Isle The Elizabethan AgeChapter 8: Men of Butter William the Silent and the Dutch Struggle for IndependenceChapter 9: The Seven Sounding Harmony The Origins of Modern ScienceChapter 10: The Lion of the North Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years WarChapter 11: Whose Slaves the Poor Shall Be? The Civil War in EnglandChapter 12: Batavian Freedom The Golden Age of the DutchChapter 13: "Nec Pluribus Impar" The Defeat of Louis XIVChapter 14: No More Worlds to Conquer The Seven Years WarChapter 15: The Reward Due to Valour Thomas Jefferson's Vision of AmericaChapter 16: Vienna Gloriosa Mozart and. the Emperor Joseph IIChapter 17: A Fall of Snow on Blossoming Leaves* The French RevolutionChapter 18: With Pomp of Waters, Unwithstood Victory over NapoleonChapter 19: Freedom Rejected Immanuel Kant and the Reform of PrussiaChapter 20: Above the Vaulted Sky The Industrialisation of EnglandChapter 21: A Son of Liberty The Unification of ItalyChapter 22: God's Private Secretary Florence NightingaleChapter 23: The Last, Best Hope of Earth The American Civil WarChapter 24: The Liberty of the Nation Liberal England and Imperial GermanyChapter 25: The Magic Mountain The Development of Science from the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 26: The Swift Iron Burning Bee The First World War Chapter 27: "Beacons in the Night" Artists and Writers c1850-1945Chapter 28: An Armistice for Twenty Years The Causes of the Second World WarChapter 29: Victory over Tyranny The Second World WarBibliographyIndex

Brian Hodgkinson qualified as a Chartered Accountant, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. During a long teaching career at Sussex University, Dulwich College and St James Schools in London, he developed a strong and diverse interest in writing, which involved studying History, Economics, Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and epic literature.

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• Volume 1IntroductionPart 1: FoundationsChapter 1: A Time to Live The Nature of HistoryChapter 2: The Ages of Man The Great Cycles Part 2: Egyptian CivilisationChapter 3: God Beyond All Name Egyptian Philosophy and Religion Chapter 4: Giants in the Earth The Old Kingdom Chapter 5: Renewing Births The Middle and New Kingdoms and the Decline of Egypt Part 3: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Homeric CultureChapter 6: Minotaur Theseus and Ancient Crete Chapter 7: Agamemnon's Return Mycenaean Society Chapter 8: One is the Race of Gods and Men Culture and Religion Chapter 9: Since Peace is in the Land The Greek Polis Chapter 10:The Crown of Wild Olive The Olympic Games Chapter 11: Obedient to their Laws Lycurgus & Sparta Chapter 12: Model Cities Colonisation & Solon Chapter 13: The Tomb of the Body Pythagoras; Egyptian & Eastern Influences Chapter 14: The Gates of Heaven Reforms of Cleisthenes & the Battle of Marathon Chapter 15: Triumph of the Greeks The Persian War Chapter 16: Alliance into Empire The Delian League Chapter 17: The Classical Moment Athenian Culture Chapter 18: The Saving Bulwark Pericles Chapter 19: A Vision of Hidden Things The Philosophy of Unity Chapter 20: Death of a Culture The Peloponnesian War Part 4: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Hellenistic CultureChapter 21: A Draught of Hemlock The Teaching of SocratesChapter 22: Scourge of Tyranny The Career of Epaminondas Chapter 23: Philosopher Kings Plato's Political Philosophy Chapter 24: Son of Zeus Alexander the Great Chapter 25: Our Fathers' Mingled Blood The Foundation of Rome Chapter 26: Sacred Fire Numa PompiliusChapter 27: Brave Days of Old The Kings of RomeChapter 28: Destined to Grow Great The Republic Conquers ItalyChapter 29: Natural Justice Growth of Roman Government and LawChapter 30: Tempered in the Fire War with CarthageChapter 31: The Fetters of Greece The Roman Conquest of GreeceChapter 32: Land and Liberty The Gracchi's Land Reform Chapter 33: Cruel Men of Rome Decline of the Republic Chapter 34: But One Only Man Julius Caesar Chapter 35: A Better Age of Gold The Rule of Augustus Part 5: The Rise of Christian CivilisationChapter 36: I Am the True Vine The Life of Jesus ChristChapter 37: When Uricon the City Stood Roman BritainChapter 38: Care of the Churches St Paul and the Early Church Chapter 39: One True Nobility The Empire from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius Chapter 40: Saints and Martyrs The Growth of the Church to the Council of Chalcedon Chapter 41: Long Autumn of Empire The Fall of the Western Empire and the Creation of Constantinople BibliographyIndexIndex of MapsVolume 2AcknowledgementImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: The Creation of Medieval CultureChapter 1: The Once and Future King King ArthurChapter 2: A Being Self-sufficient BoethiusChapter 3: The Way Found by Us The Empire of JustinianChapter 4: One Sacred Work The Beginning of MonasticismChapter 5: Servant of the Servants of God Gregory the Great Chapter 6: Beneath the Banner of Muhammad The Rise of IslamChapter 7: The Bonds of Kinship The Nature of the Anglo-SaxonsChapter 8: A Host of Heroes The Growth of Unity in Anglo-Saxon EnglandPart 2: The Carolingian RenaissanceChapter 9: New Athens The Age of CharlemagneChapter 10:The Greatest Treasure-giver of all the Kings Alfred the GreatChapter 11:The Peace of all Christians Otto the GreatChapter 12:The Annihilation of Hades The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian EmperorsChapter 13:Cruel Injustice Feudalism in the Eleventh CenturyChapter 14:Redemption John Scotus Eriugena and Anselm Part 3: The Twelfth Century RenaissanceChapter 15:The Royal and Ancient Seat The Character of Paris in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 16:How Shall a Man not Sing? The Awakening of ReasonChapter 17:The Land which He had Promised Them Economic Revival in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 18:Under God and the Law Henry II and the Common Law Chapter 19:Soldiers of Christ Chivalry and the Crusades Chapter 20:The Imitation of Christ Crisis in the Medieval ChurchChapter 21:The Law Makes the King Magna Carta and the English Parliament Chapter 22:La Douce France St Louis Part 4: The Decline of Medieval CultureChapter 23:The Love that Moves the Sun Dante and Late Medieval Italy Chapter 24:Houmout; Ich Dene The Black Prince and the Hundred Years' War Chapter 25:The Roots of the Truth Faith Wycliffe and Hus Chapter 26:The Dance of Death The End of the Middle AgesBibliographyIndexVolume 3AcknowledgementsImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The City of Good Government The Master Builders of Quattrocento FlorenceChapter 2: Rejoice in the Present The Sources of the Florentine RenaissanceChapter 3: At the Feet of the Master The Growth of the RenaissanceChapter 4: The New Found Land Exploration and Land DevelopmentChapter 5: The Way of Reason Religious and Social Conflict in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 6: This Side of the Sea and Beyond The Siege of Malta 1565Chapter 7: The Melody of our Sweet Isle The Elizabethan AgeChapter 8: Men of Butter William the Silent and the Dutch Struggle for IndependenceChapter 9: The Seven Sounding Harmony The Origins of Modern ScienceChapter 10: The Lion of the North Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years WarChapter 11: Whose Slaves the Poor Shall Be? The Civil War in EnglandChapter 12: Batavian Freedom The Golden Age of the DutchChapter 13: "Nec Pluribus Impar" The Defeat of Louis XIVChapter 14: No More Worlds to Conquer The Seven Years WarChapter 15: The Reward Due to Valour Thomas Jefferson's Vision of AmericaChapter 16: Vienna Gloriosa Mozart and. the Emperor Joseph IIChapter 17: A Fall of Snow on Blossoming Leaves* The French RevolutionChapter 18: With Pomp of Waters, Unwithstood Victory over NapoleonChapter 19: Freedom Rejected Immanuel Kant and the Reform of PrussiaChapter 20: Above the Vaulted Sky The Industrialisation of EnglandChapter 21: A Son of Liberty The Unification of ItalyChapter 22: God's Private Secretary Florence NightingaleChapter 23: The Last, Best Hope of Earth The American Civil WarChapter 24: The Liberty of the Nation Liberal England and Imperial GermanyChapter 25: The Magic Mountain The Development of Science from the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 26: The Swift Iron Burning Bee The First World War Chapter 27: "Beacons in the Night" Artists and Writers c1850-1945Chapter 28: An Armistice for Twenty Years The Causes of the Second World WarChapter 29: Victory over Tyranny The Second World WarBibliographyIndex

Brian Hodgkinson qualified as a Chartered Accountant, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. During a long teaching career at Sussex University, Dulwich College and St James Schools in London, he developed a strong and diverse interest in writing, which involved studying History, Economics, Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and epic literature.

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• Volume 1IntroductionPart 1: FoundationsChapter 1: A Time to Live The Nature of HistoryChapter 2: The Ages of Man The Great Cycles Part 2: Egyptian CivilisationChapter 3: God Beyond All Name Egyptian Philosophy and Religion Chapter 4: Giants in the Earth The Old Kingdom Chapter 5: Renewing Births The Middle and New Kingdoms and the Decline of Egypt Part 3: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Homeric CultureChapter 6: Minotaur Theseus and Ancient Crete Chapter 7: Agamemnon's Return Mycenaean Society Chapter 8: One is the Race of Gods and Men Culture and Religion Chapter 9: Since Peace is in the Land The Greek Polis Chapter 10:The Crown of Wild Olive The Olympic Games Chapter 11: Obedient to their Laws Lycurgus & Sparta Chapter 12: Model Cities Colonisation & Solon Chapter 13: The Tomb of the Body Pythagoras; Egyptian & Eastern Influences Chapter 14: The Gates of Heaven Reforms of Cleisthenes & the Battle of Marathon Chapter 15: Triumph of the Greeks The Persian War Chapter 16: Alliance into Empire The Delian League Chapter 17: The Classical Moment Athenian Culture Chapter 18: The Saving Bulwark Pericles Chapter 19: A Vision of Hidden Things The Philosophy of Unity Chapter 20: Death of a Culture The Peloponnesian War Part 4: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Hellenistic CultureChapter 21: A Draught of Hemlock The Teaching of SocratesChapter 22: Scourge of Tyranny The Career of Epaminondas Chapter 23: Philosopher Kings Plato's Political Philosophy Chapter 24: Son of Zeus Alexander the Great Chapter 25: Our Fathers' Mingled Blood The Foundation of Rome Chapter 26: Sacred Fire Numa PompiliusChapter 27: Brave Days of Old The Kings of RomeChapter 28: Destined to Grow Great The Republic Conquers ItalyChapter 29: Natural Justice Growth of Roman Government and LawChapter 30: Tempered in the Fire War with CarthageChapter 31: The Fetters of Greece The Roman Conquest of GreeceChapter 32: Land and Liberty The Gracchi's Land Reform Chapter 33: Cruel Men of Rome Decline of the Republic Chapter 34: But One Only Man Julius Caesar Chapter 35: A Better Age of Gold The Rule of Augustus Part 5: The Rise of Christian CivilisationChapter 36: I Am the True Vine The Life of Jesus ChristChapter 37: When Uricon the City Stood Roman BritainChapter 38: Care of the Churches St Paul and the Early Church Chapter 39: One True Nobility The Empire from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius Chapter 40: Saints and Martyrs The Growth of the Church to the Council of Chalcedon Chapter 41: Long Autumn of Empire The Fall of the Western Empire and the Creation of Constantinople BibliographyIndexIndex of MapsVolume 2AcknowledgementImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: The Creation of Medieval CultureChapter 1: The Once and Future King King ArthurChapter 2: A Being Self-sufficient BoethiusChapter 3: The Way Found by Us The Empire of JustinianChapter 4: One Sacred Work The Beginning of MonasticismChapter 5: Servant of the Servants of God Gregory the Great Chapter 6: Beneath the Banner of Muhammad The Rise of IslamChapter 7: The Bonds of Kinship The Nature of the Anglo-SaxonsChapter 8: A Host of Heroes The Growth of Unity in Anglo-Saxon EnglandPart 2: The Carolingian RenaissanceChapter 9: New Athens The Age of CharlemagneChapter 10:The Greatest Treasure-giver of all the Kings Alfred the GreatChapter 11:The Peace of all Christians Otto the GreatChapter 12:The Annihilation of Hades The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian EmperorsChapter 13:Cruel Injustice Feudalism in the Eleventh CenturyChapter 14:Redemption John Scotus Eriugena and Anselm Part 3: The Twelfth Century RenaissanceChapter 15:The Royal and Ancient Seat The Character of Paris in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 16:How Shall a Man not Sing? The Awakening of ReasonChapter 17:The Land which He had Promised Them Economic Revival in the Twelfth CenturyChapter 18:Under God and the Law Henry II and the Common Law Chapter 19:Soldiers of Christ Chivalry and the Crusades Chapter 20:The Imitation of Christ Crisis in the Medieval ChurchChapter 21:The Law Makes the King Magna Carta and the English Parliament Chapter 22:La Douce France St Louis Part 4: The Decline of Medieval CultureChapter 23:The Love that Moves the Sun Dante and Late Medieval Italy Chapter 24:Houmout; Ich Dene The Black Prince and the Hundred Years' War Chapter 25:The Roots of the Truth Faith Wycliffe and Hus Chapter 26:The Dance of Death The End of the Middle AgesBibliographyIndexVolume 3AcknowledgementsImage AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The City of Good Government The Master Builders of Quattrocento FlorenceChapter 2: Rejoice in the Present The Sources of the Florentine RenaissanceChapter 3: At the Feet of the Master The Growth of the RenaissanceChapter 4: The New Found Land Exploration and Land DevelopmentChapter 5: The Way of Reason Religious and Social Conflict in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter 6: This Side of the Sea and Beyond The Siege of Malta 1565Chapter 7: The Melody of our Sweet Isle The Elizabethan AgeChapter 8: Men of Butter William the Silent and the Dutch Struggle for IndependenceChapter 9: The Seven Sounding Harmony The Origins of Modern ScienceChapter 10: The Lion of the North Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years WarChapter 11: Whose Slaves the Poor Shall Be? The Civil War in EnglandChapter 12: Batavian Freedom The Golden Age of the DutchChapter 13: "Nec Pluribus Impar" The Defeat of Louis XIVChapter 14: No More Worlds to Conquer The Seven Years WarChapter 15: The Reward Due to Valour Thomas Jefferson's Vision of AmericaChapter 16: Vienna Gloriosa Mozart and. the Emperor Joseph IIChapter 17: A Fall of Snow on Blossoming Leaves* The French RevolutionChapter 18: With Pomp of Waters, Unwithstood Victory over NapoleonChapter 19: Freedom Rejected Immanuel Kant and the Reform of PrussiaChapter 20: Above the Vaulted Sky The Industrialisation of EnglandChapter 21: A Son of Liberty The Unification of ItalyChapter 22: God's Private Secretary Florence NightingaleChapter 23: The Last, Best Hope of Earth The American Civil WarChapter 24: The Liberty of the Nation Liberal England and Imperial GermanyChapter 25: The Magic Mountain The Development of Science from the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 26: The Swift Iron Burning Bee The First World War Chapter 27: "Beacons in the Night" Artists and Writers c1850-1945Chapter 28: An Armistice for Twenty Years The Causes of the Second World WarChapter 29: Victory over Tyranny The Second World WarBibliographyIndex