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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age - Manchester, William
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A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages ( Dallas Morning News ) 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 ...

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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age 1992, Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA

ISBN-13: 9780316545310

Hardcover