A World Lit only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age.
A world Lit Only by Fire deals with the technoligical stagnation that existed in the Middle Ages, and the occurences that jolted Erupoe into the Renaissance. Manchester covers many aspects of this time period including the rise of humanism in the early days of the Renaissance and its triumph of secularism over piety. It looks like more than your average history book. I'm pretty excited.
More info to come (after I read the book...)!
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