“A World Lit Only by Fire,” written by William Manchester and published in 1992, is a casual retelling of the history of the Middle Ages. The author is a journalist, and that's why the book is so interesting: the language is vivid and brilliant, and the book is written in such an interesting way that it feels like reading a work of fiction, not a history book ( but this can probably be explained by the fact that most historians who write books are not exceptional journalists). The book consists of three parts: The Medieval Mind; The Crushing; A single man. In each part of the book the author examines specific phenomena and events that took place during the Middle Ages, thus explaining the thinking pattern of medieval man and woman and the chain of events that brought this way of thinking to its end. the book "The Medieval Mind", Manchester introduces the reader with the environment of the Middle Ages and the customs of that time, as well as medieval people's access and understanding of Christianity, which is crucial to understanding the times. The Middle Ages began with the collapse of the Roman Empire, which began in 410 when the Visigoth Alaric led to Rome forty thousand Goths, Huns and freed the Roman slaves [1;4], demolishing a large part of the city and destroying priceless pieces of the art, thinking only of material gain (they even melted artefacts of precious metals).[1;5] Subsequently, Huns, Goths, Alans, Burgundians, Turigians, Frisians, Gepids, Swabians, Alemanni, Angles, Saxons, also Jutes, Lombards, Heruli, Quadi and Magyars saw the opportunity to steal, rape and ravage, thus invading what remained of the Empire and destroying the rest of the map. blind and ritualistic assumptions of a thousand years. But Magellan's voyage highlighted its central myth. Europe was no longer the world, and the world was no longer the center of the universe."[1;292] If the Earth were round and there was no "up" or "down", then obviously there would be no sky . And, if there was no sky, there was no God either.[1;292]Manchester concludes thus: “The most difficult thing of all is the sense of loss, the awareness that the serenity of medieval faith and the certainty of eternal glory, are gone forever.”[1;292]In conclusion, the book was very pleasant and easy to understand, although, given that the author is a journalist and some of the events described raised doubts about the their authenticity, it makes me wonder what other places I haven't noticed that a historian or a theologian would object to. Works Cited A World Illuminated Only by Fire, The Bible