Hinges of history
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Hinges of history volume 1
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English
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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.
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Hinges of history volume 2
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English
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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...
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Desire of the everlasting hills: the world before and after Jesus , Hinges of history volume 3
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Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter , Hinges of history volume 4
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Hinges of history volume 5
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N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Explores how the rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science that took place in the Middle Ages created the foundations of modern Western civilization.
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Heretics and heroes: the exaltation of ego in the Renaissance and the Reformation , Hinges of history volume 6
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