A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Manchester, William, PUBLISHER: Back Bay Books, From tales ong>ofong> chivalrous knights to the barbarity ong>ofong> trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source ong>ofong> awe, ong>horrorong>, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority ong>ofong> his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink ong>ofong> collapse to the grandeur ong>ofong> its rebirth-the dense explosion ong>ofong> energy that spawned some ong>ofong> history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some ong>ofong> its most spectacular villains- the Renaissance.