$1.99 | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (eBook) by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Leave a comment

A “marvelous historical past”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ Warfare, by the Pulitzer Prize–profitable creator of The Weapons of August

*Lawrence Wright, creator of The Finish of October, in The Wall Road Journal

The fourteenth century displays two contradictory photos: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the opposite, a world plunged into chaos and non secular agony. On this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not solely the good rhythms of historical past however the grain and texture of home life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how cash, taxes, and battle dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her topics their loyalties, treacheries, and responsible passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, college students, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, legal professionals and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “livid follies,” a “horrible worm in an iron cocoon.”

Reward for A Distant Mirror

“Superbly written, cautious and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does beautifully is to inform how it was. . . . Nobody has ever achieved this higher.”—The New York Evaluation of Books

“A gorgeous, extraordinary guide . . . Tuchman on the high of her powers . . . She has achieved nothing finer.”—The Wall Road Journal

“Clever, witty, and fantastic . . . a terrific guide, in a terrific historic custom.”—Commentary

NOTE: This version doesn’t embody colour photos.

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