LoginA Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release date: 12 July 1987
ISBN-10 : 0345349571 | ISBN-13: 9780345349576
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Release date: 12 July 1987
ISBN-10 : 0345349571 | ISBN-13: 9780345349576
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