The Divine Order: Western Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ...fully Illustrated with b & w Plates...by the author of "Gods and Men" by Parkes, Henry Bamford - 1969

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. ....Green cloth with gilt, tight clean and square, top edge red, front edge deckled, viii, 480, xv, pages, + 16 pages of b & w plates, no names or writing, small line of white out inside front board along top edge half hidden by front flap, dust jacket has minor edge wear/rubbing, with two small pieces of archival tape on reverse top of spine. Contents include: I.The Dark Ages: 1. The End of the Western Empire 2. The Classical Inheritance 3. Dark Age Christianity 4. Decline and Renewal in the West 5. The Eastern Civilizations / II.The Middle Ages: 6. Feudalism 7. The Development of Christianity 8. Medieval Thought 9. Medieval Literature 10. Architecture and Art 11. The Later Middle Ages 12. Late Medieval Thought 13. The Medieval Decadence 14. New Views of Man and the Universe / III.The Renaissance: 15. The Renaissance in Italy 16. Dante, Petrarch, and Giotto 17. The Quattrocento 18. High Renaissance 19. Mannerism and Machiavelli 20. Humanists and Protestants 21. France and Spain 22. The English Renaissance / List of Books / index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Jacket design By Warren Chappell . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.