A distant mirror

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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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A Distant Mirror

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The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry glittering cathedrals and grand castles it was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony a world of chaos and the plague here barbara tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age examining the great rhyth Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

A Distant Mirror

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The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry glittering cathedrals and grand castles it was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony a world of chaos and the plague here barbara tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age examining the great rhyt Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 augustus 2011

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Barbara Werthei Tuchman

Tweede Auteur: Barbara W. Tuchman

Co Auteur: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

Hoofduitgeverij: Random House

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Studieboek: Ja

EAN: 9780307793690

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