But where Dan Brown builds a thriller from a vivid historical imagination, the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization (Doubleday, 1995) produces a no less fascinating but far more enlightening trek through the Middle Ages.Ĭahill's basic question is simple: How did the Romans, "the military geniuses who conquered the world and crucified without remorse any troublemaker ' become the Italians, who light the Colosseum every time a country abolishes its death penalty? Cahill's answer is nothing less than an apology for Europe's Catholic heritage, in which he unearths the gifts given by the great figures of medieval Europe to the modern West. With its alluring subtitle, The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe, the latest addition to Thomas Cahill's "Hinges of History" series, Mysteries of the Middle Ages, may be accused of riding the coattails of The Da Vinci Code. MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES By Thomas Cahill (Doubleday, 2006) APA style: Mysteries of the Middle Ages.Mysteries of the Middle Ages." Retrieved from MLA style: "Mysteries of the Middle Ages." The Free Library.
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