TY  - BOOK
AU  - William Manchester
TI  - A World Lit Only By Fire
SN  - 9780316545563
AV  - CB369 
U1  - 940.21 
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - History - Europe
N2  - 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
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