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Review of: William Manchester, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1992. Pp 322, xvii. ISBN: 978-0316545563.
I know that as a reviewer I should begin reading a book with an open mind. In this case, that was impossible. Those wishing to know my motivations for opening this book can read my blog post here.
As Manchester tells us in his introduction, he first began writing this due to an illness, “. . . I had no intention of writing it at all. In the summer of 1989 while toiling over another manuscript – the last volume of a biography of Winston Churchill – I fell ill. . . . I emerged cured but feeble, too weak to cope with my vast accumulation of Churchill documents. . . . The fact that I wasn’t strong enough for Winston did not, however, mean that inom could not work.” (xiv)
And so it began. There are three sections to this book
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Joan of Arc: Her Story
In this thorough biography, Regine Pernoud meticulously lays out the short career of the woman warrior and martyr. The book is not an easy read, but if you prefer facts to fluff it will satisfy and keep you enthralled once the essential groundwork is laid. The author, Regine Pernoud, was a member of the prestigious Academie Francaise, and the founder of Centre Jeanne Darc.
The first chapter summarizes two key political events, the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the period of multiple Popes; it was written by the translator Jeremy Duquesnay Adams. The section is sufficient if you already know some of the kunskap – I think it would be confusing if you did not. If you hope to keep all the Henrys, Charles, Louis and their uncles, wives and mothers straight, I suggest you find charts of the royal families of England and France. At least the duk
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William Marshal (1147-1219)
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ed. P. Meyer (SHF, 1901), 3vols.
Crouch, David. .
Longman Pub Group, 1993.
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For my money the best of the biographies written about William during this Century. Crouch goes to great lengths to illustrate the political difficulties William faced during his career, and the strains due to his dual fealty to the kings of England and France.
Painter, Sidney. .
University of Toronto Press, 1982.
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Duby, George. .
translated by Richard Howard. Pantheon Books, 1987.
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Edward, the Black Prince
Chandos, Herald, 1350-1380. .
ed. Richard W. Barber. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Rutgers ALEX STACKS DA234.L53 1986
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Chandos, Herald, 1350-1380. .
Edited from the manuscript in Worcester College, with linguistic and historical n