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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316545562
ISBN-139780316545563
eBay Product ID (ePID)115274
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameWorld Lit only by Fire : the Medieval Mind and the Renaissance-Portrait of an Age
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
SubjectEurope / Renaissance, General, Expeditions & Discoveries, Europe / Medieval
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam Manchester
Subject AreaEducation, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.5 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"Manchester has succeeded in bringing a lively, thoughtful order to a time when humankind was emerging from a prolonged and profound period of intellectual lethargy. If textbooks were written like this, we would all know more about the past."-- David Holahan , San Francisco Chronicle
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.21
SynopsisA "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 the Inquisition and the misery of the Black Death, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In graceful prose, and with the authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth during the Renaissance, a 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 result is an unforgettable journey into the medieval mind, as Manchester ingeniously re-creates the lives of ordinary people and offers vivid portraits of the era's most astonishing figures, such as Galileo, Machiavelli, Anne Boleyn, and Ferdinand Magellan. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." -- Chicago Tribune, Updated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a "captivating and marvelously vivid" popular history of the Middle Ages ( Publishers Weekly ). From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of the Inquisition and the misery of the Black Death, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In graceful prose, and with the authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth during the Renaissance, a 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 result is an unforgettable journey into the medieval mind, as Manchester ingeniously re-creates the lives of ordinary people and offers vivid portraits of the era's most astonishing figures, such as Galileo, Machiavelli, Anne Boleyn, and Ferdinand Magellan. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." -- Chicago Tribune
LC Classification NumberCB369.M36 1992
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- 08. Jan. 2019
Great old bestseller!
Read it years ago and loved it; bought this one for a friend who's also chewing through it quickly. I'm delighted to be able to find it and buy it so easily.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 29. Apr. 2020
A world lit only by fire
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