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Description
Chronicles the historical transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and focuses on riveting figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Lucrezia Borgia, Henry VIII, and others. By the author of Death of a President. Reprint. PW.
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Martin Luther: Add a description of this character.
- King Henry VIII
- Pope Gregory
- Charles V
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Leo III
- Anne de Pisselieu
- Frederick Barbarossa
- St. Peter
- Saint Catherine
- Christ
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Girolamo Aleandro
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Alexander VI
- Don Antonio Pigafetta
- Jesus
- Pope Julius II
- Dr. Johann Eck
- Borgia pope
- Pope Leo X
- Virgin Mary
- Johann Tetzel
- John Calvin
- King Francis I
Memorable Quotes
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“At any given moment the most dangerous enemy in Europe was the reigning pope”
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“boys were sexually aggressive, and girls liked them so”
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“Like all people at all times, they were confronted each day by the present, which always arrives in a promiscuous rush, with the significant, the trivial, the profound, and the fatuous all tangled together”
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“lust, and particularly noble lust, seethed throughout Europe”
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“Out of love for the faith and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg under the chairmanship of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology”
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“The Church is not susceptible of being reformed in her doctrines”
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“The Church is the work of an Incarnate God”
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“the entire medieval millennium took on the aspect of triumphant Christendom”
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“the life of every European, from baptism through matrimony to burial, was governed by popes, cardinals, prelates, monsignors, archbishops, bishops, and village priests”
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“The most baffling, elusive, yet in many ways the most significant dimensions of the medieval mind were invisible and silent”
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“there was no room in the medieval mind for doubt; the possibility of skepticism simply did not exist”
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“threatened the certitude that knowledge had been forever fixed by God, the rigid mind-set which left no role for curiosity or innovation”
First Sentence
THE DENSEST of the medieval centuries - the six hundred years between, roughly, A.D. 400 and A.D. 1000 - are still widely known as the Dark Ages.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- William Manchester (Author)
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