Description

From stories of chivalrous knights for the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no period is a better supply of amazement, question, and fear compared to Dark Ages. In handsomely constructed writing, and with all the acceptance and power of his remarkable gift for narrative history, Bill Birmingham brings us from the world tottering on the edge of failure to the brilliance of its revival-the thick surge of power that created some of history's best poets, philosophers, artists, adventurers, and reformers, in addition to some of its most magnificent villains- the Renaissance.