The author, Eric Chamberlin, introduces us to the Renaissance, the era of a return to the values ​ ​ of the ancient world. How Europeans lived in the XIV century, how they fought, received education, were treated, what they believed and what they were afraid of. Peaceful life and war, court and inquisition, gloomy pictures of devastating epidemics and festivities of folk carnivals come to life on the pages of this entertaining book.