{"product_id":"a-distant-mirror-the-calamitous-14th-century-0345349571","title":"A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0345349571\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tuchman, Barbara W.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA ?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 JournalThe 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 follies,? a ?terrible worm in an iron cocoon.?Praise for A Distant Mirror?Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.?-The New York Review of Books?A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.?-The Wall Street Journal?Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.?-Commentary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e14th Century | Europe | History | Medieval | Modern World\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51536103342368,"sku":"NEW0345349571","price":15.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91DHPesTvuL.jpg?v=1777402256","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-distant-mirror-the-calamitous-14th-century-0345349571","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}