A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara Tuchman(Author)
Abacus (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
704 pages
978-0-349-12278-6 (ISBN)
Description
The fourteenth 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 anatomises the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life. Here are guilty passions; loyalties and tracheries; political assasinations; sea battles and sieges; fear of the end of the wold; corruption in high places and a yearning for reform. Here are the proud cardinals, beggars, baliffs, feminists and, dominating all, the knight in his valour and "furious follies", a "terrible worm in an iron cocoon."
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-349-12278-6 (9780349122786)
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Person
Barbara Tuchman was a double Puliter prize-winner historian, who achieved prominence as a history with THE ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM and A DISTANT MIRROR among many others. She died in 1989.