An edition of A Distant Mirror (1978)

A distant mirror

the calamitous 14th century

1st Ballantine Books ed.
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An edition of A Distant Mirror (1978)

A distant mirror

the calamitous 14th century

1st Ballantine Books ed.
  • 4.08 ·
  • 12 Ratings
  • 91 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 17 Have read

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In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors.

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Publisher
Ballantine
Language
English
Pages
677

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Cover of: A Distant Mirror
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
July 12, 1987, Ballantine Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Distant Mirror
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
September 25, 1980, Penguin Putnam~trade
Cover of: A distant mirror
A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century
1979, Ballantine
in English - 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Cover of: Distant Mirror
Distant Mirror
1979, Ballantine Books, Ballantine
Paperback
Cover of: A distant mirror
A distant mirror: the calamitous fourteenth century
1978, Knopf
in English
Cover of: A distant mirror
A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century
1978, Knopf
in English - 1st trade ed.

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New York

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [599]-617.

Genre
Biography

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 677 p., [20] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
677

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17084904M
ISBN 10
0345283945
LCCN
79088536
Library Thing
51586
Goodreads
1768980

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Codiacum, supposedly derived from Codex, codicis, meaning a tree trunk stripped of its branches such as those the Gauls used to build their palisades.
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