01294nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_219316 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 940.21 M268 Manchester, William A world lit only by fire : The medieval mind and the Renaissance portrait of an age William Manchester Boston Little, Brown 1992 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 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 Renaissance. Renaissance,Learning and scholarship,Học bổng và học tập History,Lịch sử Medieval, 500-1500,Thời cổ đại, 500-1500 Qhieu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ