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A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century

By Barbara Wertheim , Coucy , Enguerrand de;Tuchman

Book information

Publisher
Knopf
Year
1978
ISBN
9780307291608, 030729160X, 9780394400266, 0394400267
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
7 MB (7276274 bytes)
Edition
1st trade ed
Pages
xx, 677 pages, [40] pages of plates : illustration
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1340-1397;Nobility -- France -- Biography;FrancEnguerrand deNobility;Nobility--France;Nobility--France--Histor

Description

"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." _Commentary_ The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.

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