Heretics and heroes : how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world / Thomas Cahill.
2013
940 C132h 2013
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Title
Heretics and heroes : how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world / Thomas Cahill.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780385495578 (hc. : alk. paper) :
0385495579 (hc. : alk. paper)
0385495579 (hc. : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2013].
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
xxi, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40022949426
Call Number
940 C132h 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)829239548
(OCoLC)829239548
(OCoLC)829239548
Summary
From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill comes another popular history -- this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. It is a truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue. - Publisher.
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill comes another popular history -- this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. It is a truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue. - Publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-320) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Prelude : philosophical tennis through the ages
Introduction : dress rehearsals for permanent change
New worlds for old : innovation on sea and land
The invention of human beauty : and the end of medieval piety
New thoughts for new worlds : deviant monks
Reformation! : Luther steps forward
Intermission : Il buono, Il brutto, Il cattivo = The good, the bad, and the ugly
Protestant pictures : and other Northern images
Christian vs. Christian : the turns of the screw
Human love : how to live on this earth
Postlude : hope and regret.
Introduction : dress rehearsals for permanent change
New worlds for old : innovation on sea and land
The invention of human beauty : and the end of medieval piety
New thoughts for new worlds : deviant monks
Reformation! : Luther steps forward
Intermission : Il buono, Il brutto, Il cattivo = The good, the bad, and the ugly
Protestant pictures : and other Northern images
Christian vs. Christian : the turns of the screw
Human love : how to live on this earth
Postlude : hope and regret.
Series
Cahill, Thomas. Hinges of history ; v. 6.
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