Hinges of history
Author
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 1
Language
English
Description
This remarkable audiobook will challenge your preconceptions of the Dark Ages. Written by internationally-acclaimed historian Thomas Cahill, it paints an accessible and revealing portrait of medieval times. As Europe reaches intellectual stagnation and decline, Ireland bursts forth as a vigorous haven of scholarship in its first century of literacy. How the Irish Saved Civilization will change forever the way we look at our past, and ourselves.
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this insightful book, Thomas Cahill, internationally-acclaimed historian and author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization (RB# 94747), reveals the changes in thinking that made Western civilization possible. A New York Times best-seller, The Gifts of the Jews is his accessible portrait of an ancient society and their vision that would later inspire the concept of individual worth. Until the third millennium, it was a widely-held...
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 3
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
4)
Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter , Hinges of history volume 4
Author
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe--monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable...
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 6
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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...