A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14Th Century
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780345349576
Marke
Ballantine Books
Autor
Barbara W. Tuchman
Herausgeber
Ballantine Books
Pagina
704
Jahr
1987
The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century`s great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived"