Heretics and Heroes
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Heretics and Heroes
| Full title | Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World |
|---|---|
| Author | Thomas Cahill |
| Published | 2013 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The sixth volume of Cahill’s Hinges of History series, on the Renaissance and Reformation together — Michelangelo, Erasmus and Luther in one argument about the period when, on Cahill’s reading, the individual self became the unit that mattered in European thought. Popular narrative history with a thesis, written to be argued with. |
Heretics and Heroes
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, the 468-title curriculum the Substack writer published in December 2025, filed under History in the Ages 13–99+ band.
About this edition
Thomas Cahill (1940–2022) wrote six volumes of the Hinges of History series, each on a moment when he judged a culture handed something forward that would otherwise have been lost.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the 468-title curriculum this card came from; listed in the Ages 13-99+ band under History.
- Thomas Cahill — the author.
- Renaissance — half of the period the book covers.
- Martin Luther — one of the figures the argument runs through.
- Michelangelo — one of the figures the argument runs through.
- Religion — the frame the history is written in.
- Printing Press — the technology the period runs on.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.