A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th CenturyBarbara W. Tuchman—the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Guns of August—once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. 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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LibraryThing Review
Reseña de usuario - ikeman100 - LibraryThingAmazing book. This well researched tome is packed full of history and facts about the 14th century. Tuchman is good at keeping, what can be tedious, history interesting. I will be interested in any of her other works. Leer reseña completa
Review: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Reseña de usuario - Anthony Meaney - GoodreadsThis is largely the history of France in the 1300's with the story centering (to a degree) around one noble Enguerrand de Coucy who's life is intertwined with the major historical events of that age ... Leer reseña completa
Índice
3 | |
24 | |
Youth and Chivalry | 49 |
War | 70 |
The Black Death | 92 |
The Battle of Poitiers | 126 |
Hostage in England | 185 |
Enguemmd and Isabella | 204 |
The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions | 365 |
The Lure of Italy | 398 |
A Second Norman Conquest 41 6 | 416 |
The Fiction C racks | 438 |
The Siege of Barbary 4 58 | 458 |
In a Dark Wood | 478 |
Danse Macabre 4 94 | 494 |
Lost Opportunity 5 | 517 |
Sons of Iniquity | 222 |
The Gilded Shroud | 232 |
Double Allegiance | 246 |
Coucys War | 269 |
I4 Englands Turmoil | 284 |
The Emperor in Paris | 306 |
The Papal Schism | 320 |
Part Two 17 Coucys Rise | 343 |
Nicopolis | 538 |
H ung Be the Heavens with Black | 564 |
Epilogue | 582 |
9 9 | 603 |
Reference Notes | 619 |
655 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Vista previa restringida - 1979 |
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Volumen 82 Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
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