Thomas Cahill at Vernon Area Public Library

Thomas Cahill, author of Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

(Nan A. Talese  $30.50, due October 29)

Wednesday November 6 at 1:00 p.m.

Vernon Area Public Library

Registration required, to register call 224-543-1458

From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another
popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how
this innovative period changed the Western world.



In
Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill
guides us through the thrilling period of Renaissance and Reformation
(late fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries), 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 Plague, Cahill traces the many innovations 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 newly
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. 

There will be a book signing following the program with books for sale provided by Lake Forest Book Store.

Location: 


Vernon Area Public Library 300 Church St. Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069