Heretics and Heroes

[Dave Monroe]

Heretics and Heroes
HOW RENAISSANCE ARTISTS AND REFORMATION PRIESTS CREATED OUR WORLD
By THOMAS CAHILL

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.
       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 armies—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 history—those who left us a world
more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful
and strong than the one they had found.

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