Hinges of history

1) How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

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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.

2) The Gifts Of The Jews: How A Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

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Cahill, Thomas

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Hinges of history volume 2

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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...

3) Desire of the everlasting hills: the world before and after Jesus

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Cahill, Thomas

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Hinges of history volume 3

Pub. Date

c1999

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xii, 353 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 22 cm.

4) Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter

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Cahill, Thomas

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Hinges of history volume 4

Pub. Date

2003

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506 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

5) Mysteries of the Middle Ages: the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe

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Cahill, Thomas

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Hinges of history volume 5

Pub. Date

c2006

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343 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.

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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...

6) Heretics and heroes: how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests created our world

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Cahill, Thomas

Series

Hinges of history volume 6

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Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. 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...