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. --Commentary. a great book, in a great historical tradition. . . -- The Wall Street Journal Wise, witty, and wonderful .
She has done nothing finer. . .
Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . -- The New York Review of Books A beautiful, extraordinary book .
No one has ever done this better. . . .
Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was.
What Ms. . .
Praise for A Distant Mirror Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship .
Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight--in all his valor and furious follies, a terrible worm in an iron cocoon.
Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike.
In this revelatory work, Barbara W.
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
