Heretics and heroes : how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world
Title:
Heretics and heroes : how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world
Author:
Cahill, Thomas.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2013].
©2013
Physical Description:
xxi, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
Language:
English
Contents:
Philosophical tennis through the ages -- Dress rehearsals for permanent change -- New worlds for old : innovation on sea and land -- Invention of human beauty : and the end of medieval piety -- New thoughts for new worlds : deviant monks -- Reformation! : Luther steps forward -- Intermission : Il buono, Il brutto, Il cattivo = Good, the bad, and the ugly -- Protestant picture : and other Northern images -- Christian vs. Christian : the turns of the screw -- Human love : how to live on this earth -- Postlude : Hope and regret.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780385495578
Format :
Book
