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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The 14th 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; on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony--a world plunged into chaos. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the Century, revealing to us both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived; what childhood was like; what marriage means; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Here are guilty passions; loyalties and treacherous; political assassinations; sea battles and sieges; fear of the end of the world; corruption in high places and a yearning for reform; satire and humor; sorcery and demonology; lust and sadism on the stage. Here are proud cardinals, beggars,bailiffs, femi ists, Jews, university scholars, grocers, bankers, clerks, sorcerers, mercenaries, saints and mystics, lawyers and tax-collectors, and, dominating all, the knight in his Valor and "furious follies," a " terrible worm in an iron cocoon." Maps and Illustrations Listing of all in book. Also, Notes for Pages, Index, and Bibliography. The book is clean with no markings or highlighting on pages. There is a Borders label on the back cover. Seller Inventory # 781
Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. 1st Ballantine Books Edition. 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 JournalThe 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 MirrorBeautifully 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 BooksA beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.-The Wall Street JournalWise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.-Commentary. Seller Inventory # DADAX0345349571
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Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 1.23. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780345349576
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