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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 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

Using only secondary sources, Manchester plunges readers into the medieval mind-set in a captivating, marvelously vivid popular history that humanizes the tumultuous span from the Dark Ages to the dawn of the Renaissance. He delineates an age when invisible spirits infested the air, when tolerance was seen as treachery and ``a mafia of profane popes desecrated Christianity.' Besides re-creating the arduous lives of ordinary people, the Wesleyan professor of history peoples his tapestry with such figures as Leonardo, Machiavelli, Lucrezia Borgia, Erasmus, Luther, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Manchester ( The Arms of Krupp ) devotes much attention to Magellan, whose globe-straddling voyage shattered Christendom's implicit belief in Europe as the center of the universe. His portrayal of the Middle Ages as a time when the strong and the shrewd flourished, while the imaginative, the cerebral and the unfortunate suffered, rings true. Illustrations. (June)

Reviewed on: 04/27/1992
Release date: 04/01/1992
Genre: Nonfiction

World Lit Only by Fire Manchester, William on Amazon.com.au.FREE. shipping on eligible orders. World Lit Only by Fire. A World Lit Only by Fire is intended as an entertaining, informative book about a period in history whose import continues into modern day. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1, 'The Medieval Mind,' is a survey of the attitudes and mental states of the common people during the Dark Ages. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age Audible Audiobook – Unabridged William Manchester (Author), Barrett Whitener (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) & 0 more. William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism. A World Lit Only By Fire is William Manchester's attempt to write a book of popular history defending the increasingly unpopular view among historians that the medieval world was culturally, religiously, and technologically backward.

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