A world lit only by fire : the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age / William Manchester
Manchester, William (1922-2004)
Language: English
Published by Boston : Little, Brown, 1992
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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Author's presentation copy. Physical description; xvii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Contents; Chronology -- The medieval mind -- The shattering -- One man alone. Subjects; Renaissance. Learning and scholarship History Medieval, 500-1500. Medicine, Medieval. Europe History 1492-1648. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- A world lit only by fire : the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age / William Manchester
- Author
- Manchester, William (1922-2004)
- Publisher
- Boston : Little, Brown
- Publication year
- 1992
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0316545317
- ISBN 13
- 9780316545310
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
An absorbing history of the Middle Ages from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains.
"Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." ―Chicago Tribune
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