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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN13:
9780345349576
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A marvelous history* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years War, by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knightin all his valor and furious follies, a terrible worm in an iron cocoon. Praise for A Distant Mirror Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.The New York Review of Books A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.The Wall Street Journal Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.Commentary
- | Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
- | Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- | Publication Date: July 12, 1987
- | Number of Pages: 784 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0345349571
- | ISBN-13: 9780345349576
- Author:
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Publisher:
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Publication Date:
- July 12, 1987
- Number of pages:
- 784 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0345349571
- ISBN-13:
- 9780345349576