A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
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New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2014].
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Random House trade paperback edition.
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Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
944.025 TUCHMAN
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Published
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2014].
Edition
Random House trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 714 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English

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Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 635-685) and index.
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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. Barbara 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."