The History of Civilization - From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution #266388

Subject of the lecture — The difference between the Roman municipal system and that Of the middle ages-danger Of the immobility of names 1. Various origin of the Roman city and the modern borough; 2. Di versity of their constitutions; 3. Diversity of their history — Thence re sulted that the aristocratical principle predominated in the Roman city; the democratical spirit, in the modern borough — New proofs of this fact p.