Cognitive Resonance

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.