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Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (1987, Trade Paperback)
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Distant Mirror : The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Paperback by Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim, ISBN 0345349571, ISBN-13 9780345349576, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345349571
ISBN-139780345349576
eBay Product ID (ePID)163539
Product Key Features
Book TitleDistant Mirror : the Calamitous 14th Century
Number of Pages784 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1987
TopicEurope / Western, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorBarbara W. Tuchman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN79-088536
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"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
Dewey Decimal944/.025/0924
SynopsisA "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, Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August --once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. 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
LC Classification NumberDC97.5.T82 1979
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- Jun 22, 2021
A vivid history of the calamitous 1300s
Two popes, both with mistresses and children; bubonic plague killing half of Europe. The "calamitous 14th century". These days, the plague narrative can put COVID into perspective. The book has a slow start, but worth the slog.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Feb 02, 2018
Wonderful keep-forever-on-my bookshelf book
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- Apr 25, 2024
The book was in great shape and well packed.
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- Feb 12, 2024
a fine work of scholarship
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