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Hinges of history volume 1
Language
English
Description
The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and...
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume VI
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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...
This was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also...
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
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 4
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Language
English
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2008.
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 3
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A fresh look at the impact of Jesus & early Christianity on the shaping of Western civilization.
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