
A Distant Mirror
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*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
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Foreword
- Part One
- 1. "I Am the Sire de Coucy": The Dynasty
- 2. Born to Woe: The Century
- 3. Youth and Chivalry
- 4. War
- 5. "This Is the End of the World": The Black Death
- 6. The Battle of Poitiers
- 7. Decapitated France: The Bourgeois Rising and the Jacquerie
- Photo Insert 1
- 8. Hostage in England
- 9. Enguerrand and Isabella
- 10. Sons of Iniquity
- 11. The Gilded Shroud
- 12. Double Allegiance
- 13. Coucy's War
- 14. England's Turmoil
- 15. The Emperor in Paris
- 16. The Papal Schism
- Photo Insert 2
- Part Two
- 17. Coucy's Rise
- 18. The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions
- 19. The Lure of Italy
- 20. A Second Norman Conquest
- 21. The Fiction Cracks
- 22. The Siege of Barbary
- 23. In a Dark Wood
- 24. Danse Macabre
- Photo Insert 3
- 25. Lost Opportunity
- 26. Nicopolis
- 27. Hung Be the Heavens with Black
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Reference Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Other Books by This Author
- About the Author
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