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Heretics And Heroes: How Renaissance Artists And Reformation Priests Created Our World (2013)

by Thomas Cahill(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385495579 (ISBN13: 9780385495578)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Nan A. Talese

series

The Hinges of History

review 1: Cahill has done it again. I have read several of his "hinges of history" books, and they are well written and humorous. this one starts with the Black Death in Europe (the Plague) and then runs through the Reformation and Renaissance periods. Cahill is a master at showing you why we are what we are based on historical events. As a practicing Catholic, it was extremely interesting to me to read about the Reformation period.
review 2: As part of the author's Hinges of History series, this is an engaging book. Cahill is no objective historian; his opinions and prejudices are clear and non-negotiable. Still, he puts the changes of the Renaissance and Reformation into a historical context - how the Black Death, the church schism, the constant state of war - infl... moreuenced men (and they are mostly all men) we now consider to be some of the most important historical/artistic figures of human history. less

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