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| Author | Barbara Wertheim Tuchman |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | August 3, 2011 |
| Print length | 1018 pages |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6⭐ / 2,992 ratings |
| Great on Kindle | ✅ |
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."
Praise for A Distant Mirror
"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
"A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition."
—Commentary
NOTE: This edition does not include color images.
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