lnhammer: the Chinese character for poetry, red on white background (Default)
lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote in [personal profile] ahorbinski 2011-01-19 10:54 pm (UTC)

I haven't read it since it came out in paperback, so I cannot speak to details. One takeaway I do recall is how Manchester bought into what the men of the early renaissance said about the middle ages and how they were sooooo different from their grandfathers -- resulting in an repeated pattern of diminishing the considerable accomplishments of the high middle ages and inflating those of the renaissance. Your icon, in short, is apropos.

---L.

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