Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History)

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pp. xxi [3] 341.”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?nd 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?hose who left us a world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful and strong than the one they had found.”

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ISBN 0385495579
ISBN13 9780385495578
Number of pages 341
Original Title Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History)
Published Date 2014
Book Condition Good
Jacket Condition Very Good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication New York
Edition First Edition
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pp. xxi [3] 341.”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?nd 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?hose who left us a world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful and strong than the one they had found.”

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Weight 1.2 kg