A Distant Mirror: The Pernicious 14th Century
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A Distant Mirror: The Pernicious 14th Century
6.99 €
Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) is an American writer and historian. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "The Guns of August" and "Ode to Political Folly".
The 14th century is a turning point. One of the darkest and most mysterious centuries not only in French but also in European history.
The time of the "Avignon captivity" of the popes, the Hundred Years' War, the "Black Death" pandemic, which took the lives of a third of Europe's population, the short and bloody Jacquerie and the flourishing of many bizarre heresies.
A time of violence and lawlessness, hunger and ruin, unbelief and despondency.
But life goes on even in the darkest times...
Before the reader is a unique book, in which the author turns the history of the de Coucy family into a kind of mirror reflecting the history of the 14th century itself...
The 14th century is a turning point. One of the darkest and most mysterious centuries not only in French but also in European history.
The time of the "Avignon captivity" of the popes, the Hundred Years' War, the "Black Death" pandemic, which took the lives of a third of Europe's population, the short and bloody Jacquerie and the flourishing of many bizarre heresies.
A time of violence and lawlessness, hunger and ruin, unbelief and despondency.
But life goes on even in the darkest times...
Before the reader is a unique book, in which the author turns the history of the de Coucy family into a kind of mirror reflecting the history of the 14th century itself...
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