{"product_id":"a-distant-mirror-barbara-wertheim-tuchman-9781664496613","title":"A Distant Mirror: Part 2: The Calamitous 14th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Lawrence Wright, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of October\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Wertheim Tuchman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1664496610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781664496613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Recorded Books, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Barbara Wertheim Tuchman","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49148548448511,"sku":"9781664496613","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-distant-mirror-barbara-wertheim-tuchman-9781664496613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}