In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the Renaissance and Reformation (late fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries). This was a time 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 was an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies--and of unprecedented courage, as many thousands refused to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. It was an era where whole continents and cultures were discovered. More than anything, it was a time of individuality, as a whole culture realized that a new balance must be achieved if the West was to continue.
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