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The full title of the book is, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age. Written by William Manchester, author of several books about history, it discusses the major historical developments of the Middle Ages, and how they led to the Renaissance, and changed the ways of thinking in Europe thereafter.

The cover image is a detail of the Les Vendanges tapestry. to be found in the Musee de Cluny, a museum of the Mediaeval in Paris, France. The specific image was from the Giraudon/Art Resource New York collection.

The picture of the whole tapestry I have here is from the Cluny website:

http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/collecti...

The painting of Desiderius Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger I took from:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The painting of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach was taken from:


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The painting by an unknown painter of Ferdinand Magellan was taken from:

http://www.artres.com/C.aspx?VP3=View...

A World Lit Only by Fire was published by Little, Brown and Company in 1992.