A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara Tuchman

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 Tuchmanmasterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of...