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

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

William Manchester

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This book is ideal for readers who relish a reflective journey through the tumultuous transformation of European thought, where the interplay of faith, exploration, and intellectual rebirth challenges their understanding of history's darkest and most enlightening chapters.

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The preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages 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 craf...

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