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"The book is handsomely produced....The boxes with information on 'alumni of Alexandria' and 'the system of Dante's Hell,' among other topics will help readers keep a wealth of facts in context; so will the generous complement of illustrations, most of them described by the author in enthusiastic detail, both in his captions and in the text itself. Cahill makes seemingly forbidding medieval works of art seem accessible...."Cahill, Thomas is the author of 'Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe', published 2006 under ISBN 9780385495554 and ISBN 0385495552.
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