A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (EPUB)

"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." —_Commentary_ The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. **Barbara Tuchman** anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.