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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#193 of 3,809 books · #63 in History

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1980). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: 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 recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights. The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780241972984
Genre
History
Topics
Medieval EuropeThe Black PlagueFeudal society and chivalry

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