Search for your favourite author or book

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

ISBN 
9780241972977
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R380.00
Published 
November 2017
About the book: 

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: 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 recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights. The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force.

Other titles by this author 

Others also viewed

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the...
A reevaluation of Matisse that reveals the complex function of his work and thought in contemporary...
Invite gratitude and well-being into your life with short, daily writing prompts  ...
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy -...