Light Ages

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet

''Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it''s a charismatic evocation of another world'' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller''s Guide to Medieval England

The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clo...