A Distant Mirror

The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara Tuchman

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Viking
15 October 2017

A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August

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.

By: Barbara Tuchman
Imprint: Viking
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 50mm
Weight: 536g
ISBN: 9780241972977
ISBN 10: 0241972973
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 15 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better * New York Review of Books * Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition * Commentary * A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer * Wall Street Journal *