A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Published July 12th 1987 by Random House Trade (first published September 21st 1978)

Category: Arts

Pages: 677 pages

ISBN: 9780345349576

Description:
"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." —Commentary

The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.