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

A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
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Helpful Score: 4


For the reader who has good foundation in Medieval and Renaissance history. This is an interesting book because aside from accurate historical details about events, William Manchester also tells us about the more mundane and everyday details of the lives of the peasants, clergy and nobility. It is such an age of deceit and brutality and doesn't deserve the name of "AGe of Chivalry". Genny