A World Lit Only by Fire - William Manchester

Category: History
Language: English
Keywords: European History History Medieval Medieval History Nonfiction World History

Written by William Manchester
Read by Barrett Whitener
Format: M4B
Unabridged

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 Renaissance. The latter was a dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history’s greatest poets, philosophers, and painters, as well as some of its most spectacular villains.Knight time: explore our list of titles about the Middle Ages.