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A World Only Lit by Fire

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A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE by William Manchester

Your assignment is to read the book and answer a set of review questions. The questions will be impossible to answer without actually reading the book. The questions do not necessarily address the larger themes discussed in the book, but are intended to highlight interesting details, and simply force a closer reading of the book. I recommend that you keep the questions before you as you read. You will be asked to affirm that you have done your own work. After completing the reading and the questions, you will write an essay based on the book. The essay question is found at the end of the review questions.

The book does deal briefly with the sexual abuses and excesses of the Medieval …show more content…

20. What was Europe 's most populous country in 1500, and what was its population?

21. What were the 3 largest cities in Europe in 1500, and what were their populations?

22. What was the banking family that became prominent in the Hansa and then in all of Europe?

23. Half of all people died before reaching what age?

24. What were lepers, prostitutes, and Jews required to wear?

25. What was it illegal to wear unless you were nobly born (aristocratic)?

26. Who built the first standing clock in England, and when?

27. What was used as a substitute for long prison sentences?

28. When was the use of a diamond as an engagement ring introduced, and where?

29. At what age could girls legally marry? What about boys? 30. Who were the cleanest people in Europe? (p. 68)

31. Who described life as being "nasty, brutish, and short"? (p. 92)

32. In 1513, who became "first painter and engineer" to Frances I?

33. What subjects made up the trivium and the quadrivium?

34. Who fought and died in "the Great Slaughter"?

35. What did Sir Thomas More denounce as "as profitable as milking a he-goat into a sieve"?

36. What did Martin Luther identify as the greatest enemy of faith?

37. What two challenges did Humanism present to the Church?

38. What was Erasmus ' father 's profession?

39. What special gift did Erasmus possess which gave him a great influence upon the upper and middle

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