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Author:

Manchester, William, 1922-2004.

Title:

A world lit only by fire : the medieval mind and the Renaissance : portrait of an age / William Manchester.

Edition:

1st Back Bay pbk. ed.

Publisher:

LittleBrown,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

xvii, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Renaissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.

Contents:

List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Chronology -- Author's Note -- The Medieval Mind -- The Shattering -- One Man Alone -- Acknowledgments and Sources.

Summary:

"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 villans--the Renaissance"--Cover, p. 4.

ISBN:

9780316545563
0316545562

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28314213

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

VPPC384 -- Kling Memorial Library (Grundy Center)

RNPC397 -- Mary J. Barnett Memorial Library (Guthrie Center)

RSPC135 -- Lake City Public Library (Lake City)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

POAX626 -- Jessop-Bruner Library (University Park)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)