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Thomas Cahill on the Middle Ages

A conversation with Historian and Author Thomas Cahill. Learn how the Middle Ages changed the modern world as he discusses his book Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe.By The Walt Bodine Show, Feb 24, 2009

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Thomas Cahill is the author of the best-selling books, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, and most recently Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World. These five books comprise Volumes I, II, III,IV, and V respectively of "The Hinges of History", a prospective seven-volume series in which the author recounts formative moments in Western civilization.

The Walt Bodine Show

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