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Title: Heretics and Heroes

Subtitle: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

Author: Thomas Cahill

Narrator: Thomas Cahill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-13

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 110 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history - this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary audiobook.

In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), 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 Death, Cahill traces the many developments 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 just-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.

Critic Reviews:

"Thomas Cahill's brand of history is highly personalized, based on his own travels and his own highly literate responses to the art he discusses. It's only right, therefore, that he should be the narrator of this engaging and literate history of Renaissance artists and Reformation clerics--as rich and varied a set of personalities as any history has to offer. Cahill narrates with ease and clarity and, if anything, improves upon the immediacy of the written text. An added advantage of this audio version is that it allows one to research and view simultaneously the art works he is discussing--for example, the various Renaissance Davids, a high point of this title. Here all the potential of audio production is perfectly achieved." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Too much revisionism & propaganda

There are some brilliant descriptions and passages, but a few recurring revisionist lapses and heavy handed propaganda make the course a miserable slog. Too bad. At first, it could have been ignorance, then it became clear Thomas had several broken axes to grind.

Great story, bad decision to narrate your own book

What made the experience of listening to Heretics and Heroes the most enjoyable?

I love the author's books, I enjoy his approach to history

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Thomas Cahill?

My personal favorite of those who have narrated his books is John Lee

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Any additional comments?

Don't be put off by his pedestrian narration, listen to the whole series!

Roots

Amazing study on the roots of what we believe today as gospel, came from the depths of the reformation and the Renaissance.

Excellent

Great book, as is expected from Cahill.