A Distant Mirror

Name: A Distant Mirror
Author: Barbara Tuchman
ISBN: 9780345349576

by Barbara Tuchman

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Originally published by Ballantine Books

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not o...

First published 1600738 pages

944.025

Category: History
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 2
Editions known: 46

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 944.025944.0250924944.02
Library of Congress (LCC): DC0097.50000000.T83 2014DC0097.50000000.T8315 1980DC0097.50000000.T82 1978DC0097.50000000

Subjects

AmbassadorsBiografiaBiografíaBiographieBiographiesBiographyEurope, history, 476-1492Fourteenth centuryFranceFrance, biographyFrance, historyFrance, history, medieval period, 987-1515

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ISBN 9780345349576English

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First published1600

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