Heretics and Heroes
How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 12, 2014
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Explore how Renaissance and Reformation innovations reshaped the Western world, in vivid, illustrated history.
- Genres
- Renaissance History, 16th-Century History, Christian History
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, August 12, 2014
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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.
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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.
An Age Remade
Explore how Renaissance and Reformation innovations reshaped the Western world, in vivid, illustrated history.
Come here for
- Renaissance art and scientific adventure
- Reformation dissent alongside princes and armies
Expect
- A broad view of an age of artistic, scientific, and religious change
- Elegant prose and lavish illustrations
Where it sits
| Renaissance History | 87% |
|---|---|
| Christian History | 41% |
| 16th-Century History | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Renaissance Art History
- Western European History
- Renaissance History
- Authors
- Thomas Cahill
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- August 12, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Renaissance Art History