A Distant Mirror

A Distant Mirror

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Pages

714

Rating

4.05

Year

1978

HistoryMedieval HistoryHistoricalMedievalEuropean HistoryFrance

Description

The 14th century presents 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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