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Book Review of A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
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This is a magisterial study in the history of emerging western civilization as it struggled up out of the Dark Ages. The title is one of my all-time favorites, reminding us that our assumption of the easy access to nighttime lighting is, in the long reach of human history a very recent thing. Ponder that when you are curled up late one night reading this wonderful book.