Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation

Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (The Hinges of History)

In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through a time so full of innovation that the Western world would not again experience its like until the twentieth century: the new humanism of the Renaissance and the radical religious alterations of the Reformation.
Â Â Â Â This was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armiesâ€”and of unprecedented courage, as thousands refused to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. In these exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated pages, Cahill illuminates, as no one else can, the great gift-givers who shaped our historyâ€”those who left us a world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful and strong than the one they had found.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 97478
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-08-12
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780385495585

Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (The Hinges of History)