- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Back Bay Books; Auflage: Paperback. (1. Juni 1993)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0316545562
- ISBN-13: 978-0316545563
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14 x 2,5 x 21 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (65 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 258.463 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts and religious reform that they never quite got around to realizing the possibilities of contemporary innovations in public health, civil engineering, and other peaceful pursuits. Instead, they waged war in faraway lands, created and lost fortunes, and squandered millions of lives. For all the wastefulness of medieval societies, however, Manchester notes, the era created the foundation for the extraordinary creative explosion of the Renaissance. Drawing on a cast of characters numbering in the hundreds, Manchester does a solid job of reconstructing the medieval world, although some scholars may disagree with his interpretations.
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Manchester, temporarily putting aside his rousing Churchill series (The Last Lion), offers a disappointing retread of past histories about the explosive dawn of the modern age. For Manchester, the Middle Ages were a period of unrelieved superstition, corruption, violence, anti-intellectualism, and intolerance. The worst offenders were the Popes, particularly those ruling on the brink of the Protestant Reformation, whose catalogue of sins included assassination plots, simony, and nepotism. Their indulgence in fornication is described here with almost lip- smacking salaciousness (Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope, is pictured as making love with one woman when he suddenly spies her naked daughter, whose ``rhythmic rotation of the hips...so intrigued [him] that he switched partners in midstroke''). Manchester's heroes include Leonardo da Vinci, Luther, and Erasmus; still, in attempting to paint the twilight of an old order in bold colors, he has lost all sense of nuance, acknowledging only in a sentence the Church's role in stabilizing Europe after the Roman Empire collapsed, and picturing the Middle Ages--which produced Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Dante, Chaucer, and the builders of Chartres--as altogether bad. Manchester has not forgotten the skills that, with invective, eloquence, and anecdote, make him a master storyteller. Yet, by his own admission, he did not master any recent scholarship on the early 16th century, which dooms him to retelling the same old stories recounted countless times before. The book Manchester could have written is glimpsed briefly only in the last quarter here, when he transforms Ferdinand Magellan into a paradigm of the tragic hero he celebrated in his works on JFK, Douglas MacArthur, and Churchill. Disheartening: a ``portrait'' painted in simplified strokes and with no perspective. (Maps and 33 b&w illustrations--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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THE DENSEST of the medieval centuries-the six hundred years between, roughly, A.D. 400 and A.D. 1000-are still widely known as the Dark Ages. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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THE DENSEST of the medieval centuries-the six hundred years between, roughly, A.D. 400 and A.D. 1000-are still widely known as the Dark Ages. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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I respect Mr. Manchester's efforts....He starts out very strong. I was very optimistic with his strong entrance into the era. But it seemed almost like he turned a strong fan on his notes which scattered across the room into utter disorder, and he got very bored when he wasn't talking about Mr. Magellan. I hear it's quite innacurate, and I noticed a great deal of prejudice towards the pagan religions.His erratic writing in certain areas (it seems only when he's bored that he writes this way), he seems almost to be speaking a foreign language.
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Any work of history is bound to have a few errors of fact or interpretation, but "A World Lit Only By Fire" is riddled with astonishing inaccuracies. At one point, Manchester claims that Copernicus was burned at the stake by the Inquisition. In fact, Copernicus died of natural causes (cerebral haemorrhage) in 1543! Publication of his "Book of Revolutions" was actually encouraged by certain Church officials during his lifetime, and the book was not proscribed by the Church until 73 years after it was published. Perhaps Manchester was thinking of Giordano Bruno, or perhaps he was not thinking at all. Another example: His description of John Calvin's bloodthirsty doings relies on heavily biased secondary sources, many of which have been discredited by serious historians. There's no need to bring up further examples, since Manchester himself claims in his introduction that a historian who read the manuscript disagreed with statements on almost every page of this book. It seems safe to assume that Manchester's unwillingness to correct or qualify these statements was the result of his having an axe to grind. If you have even a glancing acquaintance with medieval history, you'll be shocked by Manchester's willful disregard for basic facts. If you're new to the subject and want a good introduction, try Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" or Norman Cohn's "Pursuit of the Millennium."
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Possibly one of the worst history books ever written. Manchester does not at all stress relevant points. He tries his best to discredit any accomplishments the Medieval Ages have brought. He praises Magellan's colonial efforts, and absoulutely nothing else.
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A journey from dark to light
Manchester explores the time period between the dark middle ages and the beginning of the renaissance. When did the middle ages really end? Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von andante veröffentlicht
Excellent example of readable history
For medieval history buffs there is enough in this book to keep you turning the pages late into the night.
Veröffentlicht am 28. Januar 2010 von M. Sloan
Boring
I was forced to read this very long and very boring book over the summer for my Ap European History class. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
This is NOT a book about the Middle Ages
It's a book about us, and how we got to be so complicated and interesting. Manchester reminds us that Europe emerged from the Dark period much the worse for the experience. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von Paul Stafford
I threw this book across the room in disgust.
As a writer and avid reader, it is not often that I feel compelled to actually fling a book away from me in disgust. In fact, I can count the instances on one hand. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 2000 von Willow Polson
Very Entertaining, But It Ain't History
Manchester's account of the medieval mind is eminently readable and entertaining, but as he himself notes in his introduction, "this is a slight work, with no pretensions to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Juni 2000 von strega2
Good - but not Manchester at his best
William Manchester is one of my favourite historians. His two volumes on Churchill and the biography of MacArthur are excellent. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Juni 2000 von Kevin Brianton
Read it before
I've been enjoying listening to the unabridged book on tape of "A World Lit Only by Fire". Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
A very good book about a poorly-understood era.
This book provides a very nice summary of "life" in the "Middle Ages," filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of that era, and provided a very succinct... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. April 2000 von D. Benz
Read, enjoy, take a pinch of salt, read something else.
A lot of those who have lambasted this book (oddly, all but a few have chosen to remain anonymous), call this book inaccurate. Yes, maybe. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. März 2000 von Nassir Isaf
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