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Title: Awful
Review: Manchester's interpretation of the period is certainly original. Indeed, I think that Medieval and Renaissance scholars would dispute much of what he says. The work is shallow, superficial, and at times borders on distortion of fact (for example, the statement that Lucrezia Borgia was having incestuous relations with both her father and her brother, a view which is not widely held). For those who are interested in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, there are many good books on the market. This isn't one of them. Try "Daily Living in the Twelfth Century" by Urban Tigner Holmes, or "The Black Death" by Philip Ziegler.
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