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Manchester - A World Lit Only by Fire (Paperback)
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Manchester - A World Lit Only by Fire (Paperback)
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Loot Price R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
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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
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