A World Lit Only by Fire

A humanity Lit notwithstanding By Fire, a magnificent book write by William Manchester transform the way people saw the medieval and the spiritual re stomach times. He portraits a very vivid image of that time hypothesis our eyes to what real happen to the people who lived that era. The book is divided into tether parts The Medieval Mind, The Shattering and the last part, whiz Man Al iodine. The commencement ceremony part of the book introduce us to a invigorated location and understanding of what the author believe, thanks to his investigations, form and mold the medieval mind.The fraternity of this time was one of indifference toward others, rotting, violence, and cruelty. Men of the church were blind by the force-out the Holy See gave them, and by the name of that same church, the one that was supposed to protect the interest of all the beliefful Christian, was the one that establish thousands of innocent deaths. When you read things the standardiseds of this you think that it tail endt purport worse, but when you keep reading you realize that not even the sins where interpreted seriously and that corruption was worse than we thought but, the worst part of the web site were the diseases.Education was so ignored by the people that at both(prenominal) forecast as the people infected with the diseases try to reach for a debase or a somebody that can cure them they find themselves without a good treatment just because the ignorance led them to became an illiterate society with a seriously lack of ethics, moral but more(prenominal) important, the base of success, the education.At the curio of this part Manchester set very clearly that this society was so insignificant, they were like stock in time, fighting the impossible, the change, a revolution toward a unfermented time fill with amazing thinkers and discoveries but with the same or worse characteristic that define this era, corruption and injustice. This new beginning is the Renaiss ance. With the re birth of an era the author begins the second part of the book The Shattering.Manchester goes more deep in the corruption of the church and the new intellectuals that emerged to expose to the world their ideas of what in their perspective was for example the way to obtain salvation. For example we gravel Erasmus and Martin Luther, 2 extraordinary humanists that fought basically against The Invincible the Catholic Church. Both of them spread their ideas of salvation and faith but at the same time they reveal the mistakes and corruption send outted by church officials.The Church of that time was sick with the power it father. Especially, the one sick with this power was the head master, The Pope. He was the first to commit mortal sins like murders and incest. Thanks to all the corruption and indifference from the church, the faith of the fellows toward them began to decrease rapidly causing the church to lose a parcel of the power they loved so much. The metem psychosis was an era of change, fighting, and unexpected discoveries do by extraordinary people.This lead us to the final part of the book, One Man Alone, basically concentrated in the trajectory, discoveries, and life of Ferdinand Magellan. He and his voyages depart change consummate(a)ly and irrevocably the world as they know it. William Manchester as hi let us know in the note at the beginning of the book almost all of his sources atomic number 18 secondary. Most of these sources atomic number 18 documents and studies about the medieval and renaissance time, but he also uses some primary sources like Life on a Medieval barony by William Stearns Davis.He pictures the medieval community and experiences very clearly. Another source Manchester uses is full treatment from Dr. Timothy Joyner and James Boyden, both work help the author complete this book with real accompaniments from historians who studied very deeply the medieval and renaissance era. In my honest opinion this i s not the type of reading I actually expect to be reading in school. I was expecting something more monotonous, but never expect to find this reading so interesting.Maybe is the fact that most of the themes treated in the book are not new to me. Being this my first time reading from William Manchester I can really say I love his works but I can really tell that if all his books are like this one I will certainly enjoy them. A World Lit Only By Fire has opened the eyes of every single person that read it to the reality of that time it actually make me feel like I was living in that monstrous time but it was a really corking experience.However this book is not for everybody the people how read it have to be open mind to the past and most important they have to know how interpret the point of view and critics of the author. Finally William Manchester is a great writer he knows how to balance between his critics, point of view, and the reality of the facts. cultivation this brightenin g book was worth my summer time and I hope that the books I will be assigned to read in the future are as good as this one.