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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 center Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary present for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance, a dense explosion of energy that spawned a few of history's greatest poets, philosophers, and painters, as well as a few of its most spectacular villains.