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The Light Ages A Medieval Journey of Discovery Tina Barouti When the heels became threadbareChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet. The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book, we walk the path of medieval science with a real life guide, a fourteenth century monk named