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Title: A Distant Mirror Condition: New Subtitle: The Calamitous 14th Century Author: Barbara Tuchman Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0241972973 EAN: 9780241972977 ISBN: 9780241972977 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Genre: History Release Date: 05/10/2017 Description: The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.
Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: 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 recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights. The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 46mm Item Weight: 533g Release Year: 2017
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