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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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14th century, To 1500, 14e siècle, Fourteenth centuryShowing 7 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
July 12, 1987, Ballantine Books
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
September 25, 1980, Penguin Putnam~trade
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A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century
1979, Ballantine
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A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century
1978, Knopf
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Bibliography, p599-617. - Includes index.
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