01917cam a2200337 i 4500 283114568 TxAuBib 20091119120000.0 091119s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 91039928 9780316545563 $20.00 0316545562 $20.00 TxAuBib rda Manchester, William Raymond, 1922- 2004. A World Lit Only By Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance : Portrait of an Age / William Manchester. 1st ed. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company (Back Bay Books), 1993. 322 p : ill., maps ; softcover ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index. List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Chronology -- Author's Note -- The Medieval Mind -- The Shattering -- One Man Alone -- Acknowledgments and Sources. 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 villians---the Renaissance. 20091119. Renaissance. Learning and scholarship History Medieval, 500-1500. Medieval. Middle Ages.