Hinges of history
Author
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 1
Language
English
Description
Reveals the pivotal role played by the monks and scribes of Ireland in the development of Western culture and history.
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Desire of the everlasting hills: the world before and after Jesus , Hinges of history volume 3
Author
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 4
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
343 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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 6
Language
English
Formats
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...