A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age SS_Gift_Guide This vivid new history shows

This vivid new history shows how attitudes to magic and science changed over the medieval period—and produced great works of art as they did so

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

and underwhelmed by life

Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and

" —Aimee Nezhukumatathil

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age SS_Gift_Guide This vivid new history showsAn absorbing history of the Middle Ages from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. 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