Half title: Essays on historical and literary subjects
"In continuation of Studies in European history."
"One of these lectures 'Universities Past and Present'-- occurs in the second volume of Addresses published in Germany in 1889; the remaining seven are selected from a volume edited, after the Author's death, by Doctor Max Lossen, and published by C.H. Beck, of Munich, 1891."--Translator's pref.
Filmed with: Fontane : Blätter der Erinnerung / Franz Servaes (1921).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of selected lectures from: Akademische Vorträge.
Universities past and present -- Founders of religions -- The empire of Charles the Great and his successors -- Anagni --The suppression of the Knights Templars -- The history of religious freedom -- Various estimates of the French Revolution -- The part taken by North America in literature