Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Rhine River was the natural bridge that allowed the barbari, the non-Romans, to cross into Rome. The Romans were weary and disciplined, while the barbarians were anxious and helter-skelter. #2 The first volume of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in 1776. It raised far more interest in London than the news from the troublesome colonies in North America. The decline of Rome, according to Gibbon, was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. #3 The Roman Empire fell because of inner weakness, or because of outer pressure from the barbarian hordes. However, Romans for many decades hardly noticed what was happening. The peace and predictability of Roman civilization was deep, lasting, and extensive. #4 The Germanic tribes were not a threat to the Romans, as they were a year-in, year-out, raggle-taggle migration. The Romans, on the other hand, were overwhelmed by the numbers of the barbarian invaders.
But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.
Donahue's essay “Beowulf and Christian Tradition: A Reconsideration from a Celtic Stance” in Traditio 21 (1965), Fordham University's journal of “Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought and Religion,” is so discerning and generous that ...
In his compelling and entertaining narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Irish monks and scrines copied the mauscripts of both pagan and Christian writers, including Homer and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost ...
How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Thomas Cahill. A Note About the Author Thomas Cahill's appealing approach to distant history has won the attention of millions of readers in North America and beyond.
BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.
Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.
ISTORY HAS MUCH TO DO with hills. From the Hill of Zion on which King David built Jerusalem to the Athenian Acropolis, from Bunker Hill of the American Revolution to Malvern Hill of the American Civil War, from Iwo Jima's Mount ...
BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.
In this elegant little volume, a noted religious publisher and biblical student has collected Jesus' key messenges, culled from the Gospels.
pope is a living saint , but the etiquette of addressing the pope as " Your Holiness ” or “ Holy Father , ” a vocative locution expected of everyone who meets the pope ( regardless of personal belief ) , goes a long way toward ...