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A Distant Mirror
Barbara W. Tuchman
其他書名
The Calamitous 14th Century
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2011-08-03
主題
History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Western
History / Europe / Medieval
ISBN
0307793699
9780307793690
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BmRoOIwLWhsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A “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
The Guns of August
*Lawrence Wright, author of
The End of October,
in
The Wall Street Journal
The 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.”
Praise for
A Distant Mirror
“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.”
—
The New York Review of Books
“A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”
—
The Wall Street Journal
“Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”
—Commentary
NOTE: This edition does not include color images.
