A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-19892014
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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.
Main title:
A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century / Barbara W. Tuchman.
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Imprint:
New York : Ballantine, 1979.
Collation:
xx, 677 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1978.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780345349576 (pbk)
Dewey class:
944.02092944.02
Language:
English
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BRN:
4148557
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