A Distant Mirror
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- Titel: A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century / Barbara W Tuchman
- Person(en): Tuchman, Barbara W
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2011
- ISBN/Preis: 9780307793690 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; History ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5B881641-6A03-4D5A-BE78-14A0ABEA64A8 Excerpt
Inhalt: Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning classic The Guns of August--once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. 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 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. 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...
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