... home by socialists, pacifists, Jews and democratic politicians who became recognised as the November Criminals. This idea provided fertile propaganda for the anti-democratic right wing political parties. Historian John Wheeler-Bennet suggests the democracy was undermined at the start because of the stab in the back legend. The Dolchstosselegende was a key reason for the doubtfulness in democracy and thus the failure of the Weimar Republic. Another key reason for the eventual downfall of the democratic republic ... while Groener would ensure army support for Ebert's government any form o...

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... Ignatius of Loyola. If one may imagine an eighteenth century John Huss, it is impossible to imagine anyone with sufficient passion to burn him. Until the stirrings of conscience in Britain that developed into the Methodist revival began, we can detect scarcely a suspicion that there still remained great tasks in hand for our race to do, that enormous disturbances were close at ... realize what fires had once blazed in the heart of Christianity, and what fires, of political and religious passion might still blaze in the hearts of men. "This awful revolution," wrote Gibbon of the Western co...

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... Queen from her inferior female body. John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a ... King became ruler he was symbolically married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female state, when there is a female head of state, the symbolic ...

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