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An edition of A Distant Mirror
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A distant mirror
the calamitous fourteenth century
by Barbara Tuchman
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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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Nobleza, Noblesse, Biographies, Open Library Staff Picks, Histoire, France, Middle Ages, Biography, Ambassadors, Soldiers, Manners and customs, Biografía, Nobility, History, Medieval Civilization, Social History, Fourteenth century, Kultur, France, history, France, biography, France, history, medieval period, 987-1515, Nobility, france, Biographie, Història, Noblesa, Biografia, Europe, history, 476-1492Times
14th century, To 1500, 14e siècle, Fourteenth century, S. XIVShowing 8 featured editions. View all 43 editions?
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
July 12, 1987, Ballantine Books
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Der ferne Spiegel. Das dramatische 14. Jahrhundert.
January 1, 1982, Dtv
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
September 25, 1980, Penguin Putnam~trade
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Der Ferne Spiegel: das dramatische 14. Jahrhundert
1980, Claassen Verlag
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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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0394400267 9780394400266
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [599]-617.
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