Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. – “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning News

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.

Author: Thomas Cahill
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 08/12/2014
Series: Hinges of History #06
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.20w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780385495585
Language: English