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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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June 1, 2012
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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 Prize–winning 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 knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” 

 

“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 
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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