Here are proud cardinals, beggars, feminists, university scholars, grocers, bankers, mercenaries, mystics, lawyers and tax collectors, and, dominating all, the knight in his valor and "furious follies," a "terrible worm in an iron cocoon. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Here are the guilty passions, loyalties and treacheries, political assassinations, sea battles and sieges, corruption in high places and a yearning for reform, satire and humor, sorcery and demonology, and lust and sadism on the stage. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.īarbara Tuchman reveals both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Kindle edition by Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.
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
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