A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $6.37

  The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues and revolts against a poll tax, amongst other things. Tuchman has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for August 1914 and Sand Against Wind and her other novels are The Proud Tower , The Zimmermann Telegram and Bible and Sword .

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  Paperback
  1995

  $7.15

  A Distant Mirror, a masterly evocation of the extraordinary world of western Europe between 1300 and 1450, has been acclaimed as Barbara Tuchman's finest achievement. She brings the insights of a modern historian to bear on the decades of Chaucer and Boccacio, the time of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death, of the great fame of Dante, of extravagant civilization and bizarre superstition, of pilgrimage and of plague.