A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Softcover

Tuchman, Barbara

 
9780241972977: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241972973 ISBN 13: 9780241972977
Verlag: Penguin, 2017

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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.

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Barbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August. She is also the author of The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly. She died in 1989. The Guns of August and The Proud Tower are published by Penguin.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241972973
ISBN 13 
9780241972977
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Anzahl der Seiten
784
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Madrid
Madrid
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