A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

William Manchester

336 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A "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 trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater sou...

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informative 94%
challenging 63%
dark 21%
reflective 21%
adventurous 10%
funny 5%
relaxing 5%

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fast 5%

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