A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Book Details
Author(s)
Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN / ASIN
0345349571
ISBN-13
9780345349576
Availability
Habituellement expédié sous 24 h
Sales Rank
#51,061
Category
History
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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A Distant Mirror "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of ... Full description
