A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age SS_Gift_Guide became an even bigger sensation

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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age SS_Gift_Guide became an even bigger sensationAn absorbing history of the Middle Ages 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 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