Heretics and Heroes
How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
New York, NY : Anchor Books, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First Anchor books edition.
Description: xix, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm.
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill comes another popular history -- this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. It is 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 full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue.
Series: Cahill, Thomas. Hinges of history ; v. VI.
Contents:
Prelude : philosophical tennis through the ages -- Introduction : dress rehearsals for permanent change -- 1282 : the Sicilian vespers -- 1353 : how to survive the Black Death -- 1381-1451 : Lutherans long before Luther -- 1452 : the Third Great Communications Revolution -- I. New worlds for old : innovation on sea and land -- 1492 : Columbus discovers America -- 1345-1498 : Humanists rampant -- II. The invention of human beauty : and the end of medieval piety -- 1445?-1564 : full nakedness! -- 1565-1680 : charring the wood -- III. New thoughts for new worlds : deviant monks -- 1500-1517 : Erasmus and Luther -- IV. Reformation! : Luther steps forward -- 1518-1521 : from dispute to divide -- Intermission : Il buono, Il brutto, Il cattivo = The good, the bad, and the ugly : a portfolio of egos -- V. Protestant pictures : and other Northern images -- 1498-1528 : Apocalypse now -- 1516-1535 : Utopia now and then -- 1522-1611 : the word of God goes forth, first in Hochdeutsch, then in Shakespearean English -- 1520s : encounters and evasions in Paris -- 1525?-1569: the ice is melting -- VI. Christian vs. Christian : the turns of the screw -- 1516-1525 : from Zwingli to the Peasants' War -- 1525-1564 : from princely conversions to the Second Reformation -- 1545-1563 : Catholics get their act together -- 1558-1603 : the religious establishment of a Virgin Queen -- 1562-1648 : let's kill 'em all! -- VII. Human love : how to live on this earth -- 1531-1540 : nuns with guns -- 1572-1616 : men in the middle -- 1615-1669 : the deepening -- Postlude : hope and regret.
ISBN:
9780385495585
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-320) and index.