The period of the Renaissance and Reformation is increasingly important for the student of today, in a time when understanding the roots of contemporary personal and social issues has become so pressing. Miss Mills has an uncanny and unique ability to write history that is interesting and at the same time based on sound scholarship. Her direct, engaging approach is valued increasingly by the many parents in our day who are looking for reliable materials for home school study. Miss Mills not only shows the essential meaning of the period, what brought about this great change in thought and how it affected the outward experience of the peoples of Italy, Germany, Spain, France, and England, but also makes clear in what way it resembles the present. The modern world as we know it, dominated by machinery and inspired by scientific achievements (and now a whole new 'digital' world), along with an increasing focus on individualism, in both its positive and negative aspects, is the heir of all the ages, inheriting from the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and from the Renaissance. Each civilization made its own contribution, and in each something is found akin to us today. This is especially true of the period of the Renaissance, for it had in it ideas and attitudes of mind that created conditions sometimes not unlike those of today. Dawn Chorus has published these other books by Dorothy Mills: The Book of the Ancient World; The Book of the Ancient Greeks; The Book of the Ancient Romans; The People of Ancient Israel; and The Middle Ages.