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

This book, 'A World Lit Only By Fire', by William Manchester, is an appalling book. Written in a sensationalist, purple prose, and with only a passing swipe at scholarship, Manchester gives such a dystopian vision of medieval and renaissance times that one is forced to approach the book as fiction. I cannot recommend this book to anyone, expert, scholar, or junior high reader. It is false.Get more detail about A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age.