A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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 b….Read More
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