Women in the Days of the Cathedrals

7 best books like Women in the Days of the Cathedrals (Régine Pernoud): City of God, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, Culture Care, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

City of God

Author	Augustine of Hippo
ISBN	0140448942

This is a truly COLOSSAL book!

You know, there are two ways of getting answers in the world... there’s getting the world’s answers (and that’s sometimes doublethink) and there’s getting TRANSCENDENTAL answers!

Sub specie aeternitatis, transcendental answers are the...

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Author	Modris Eksteins
ISBN	0395937582

A rare and remarkable cultural history of World War I that unearths the roots of modernism Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913, to the death of Hitler in 1945. Recognizing...

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Author

Jacob Burckhardt

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste

Author	Bea Johnson
ISBN	1451697686

Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their footprint...

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Author	Antonin Sertillanges
ISBN	0813206464

"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.


It has taken me a year to work my way through...

Culture Care

Author	Makoto Fujimura
ISBN	9781495131

"Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated."

Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto...

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

Author	Edward Feser
ISBN	1587314517

"The central contention of the "New Atheism" of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that the centuries-old "war between science and religion" is now over and that religion has lost. But as Edward Feser shows in The Last Superstition, there is not, and never has...