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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385495552
ISBN-13: 9780385495554
Oct 2006
Publisher: Nan a Talese
343 pages
Language: English |
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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Synopsis
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 Florence of Dante and Giotto--Cahill captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.--From publisher description.
| Size | | Length: | 343 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 26.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The book is handsomely produced....The boxes with information on 'alumni of Alexandria' and 'the system of Dante's Hell,' among other topics will help readers keep a wealth of facts in context; so will the generous complement of illustrations, most of them described by the author in enthusiastic detail, both in his captions and in the text itself. Cahill makes seemingly forbidding medieval works of art seem accessible...."
(12/24/2006)
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