Manchester

A World Lit Only by Fire

William Manchester

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Back Bay
02 October 2014

History; Local history

"Updated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a ""captivating and marvelously vivid"" popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly).

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of the Inquisition and the misery of the Black Death, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In graceful prose, and with the authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth during the Renaissance, a 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 result is an unforgettable journey into the medieval mind, as Manchester ingeniously re-creates the lives of ordinary people and offers vivid portraits of the era's most astonishing figures, such as Galileo, Machiavelli, Anne Boleyn, and Ferdinand Magellan.

""Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born."" --Chicago Tribune"

By: William Manchester
Imprint: Back Bay
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 388g
ISBN: 9780316545563
ISBN 10: 0316545562
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 02 October 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism.

Reviews for Manchester: A World Lit Only by Fire

"""A captivating, marvelously vivid popular history that humanizes the tumultuous span from the Dark Ages to the dawn of the Renaissance.""--Publishers Weekly ""Lively and engaging, full of exquisite details and anecdotes that transform this period -- usually murky -- into a comprehensive tableau.""--Dallas Morning News ""Manchester has succeeded in bringing a lively, thoughtful order to a time when humankind was emerging from a prolonged and profound period of intellectual lethargy. If textbooks were written like this, we would all know more about the past.""--David Holahan, San Francisco Chronicle"