The Other Historical Essays

These historical essays were actually an occasion for Schiller to analyze, according to his own criteria, the greatness and frailties of past rulers. This profiling of men in command and their government are dealt in essays such as: 'Memorable facts about the life of Marshall of Vieilleville', 'History of the turmoil in France which preceded the ascension of Henry IV', 'The government of the Jesuits in Paraguay', or 'Overview of the most remarkable state events in the times of Emperor Frederick I'. These essays are completed with other historical fragments and articles on the subject of Universal History.

F. Schiller is a major figure of Enlightenment, who influenced many other philosophers, writers and statesmen and historians with his insightful rendition of such topics as the State, History, Religion, the Sublime. but also Love and Nature. In eight remarkable legal cases which portray the human being in all his errings and excesses, Schiller reinterprets in the spirit of a human friendly observer, past legal judgments which call upon the use of newly discovered field, such as psychology, as well as new principles which were used to draft laws, in order to reconcile humanity with legality.