An edition of A Distant Mirror (1978)

A distant mirror

the calamitous 14th century

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A distant mirror
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
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An edition of A Distant Mirror (1978)

A distant mirror

the calamitous 14th century

  • 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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Penguin books
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
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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Harmondsworth

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1978.

Series
Penguin books

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 677 p., (32) p. of plates :
Number of pages
677

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OL18345465M

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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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