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A world lit only by fire : the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age / William Manchester.
Author
Manchester, William, 1922-2004
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Language
English
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1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Published/Created
Boston : Little, Brown, ©1993.
Description
xvii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA)
CB369 .M36 1993
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Renaissance
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"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--the Renaissance"--Page 4 of cover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Chronology
Author's Note
The Medieval Mind
The Shattering
One Man Alone
Acknowledgments and Sources.
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ISBN
0316545562
9780316545563
0316545317
9780316545310
LCCN
91039928
OCLC
28314213
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