A Distant Mirror

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    By Barbara W. Tuchman

    47 Jeweled crowNs: Vaughan. CHARLES v's ILLNesses AND Abscess: KL, IX, 280–82; Delachenal, I, 14; II, 306–11. Froissart's account, according to Delachenal, V, 389, is a “tissue of fables.” cHARLEs v's libRARY: Christine de Pisan, ...

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    By Barbara W. Tuchman

    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, ...

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    By Barbara Tuchman

    Here, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman captures both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of daily life - what childhood and marriage were like; how money, taxes and war dominated the lives of serf, noble ...

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    By Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

    The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European...

  • A Distant Mirror
    By Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

    Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.

  • A Distant Mirror: 15th Century History
    By Barbara W. Tuchman

    A Distant Mirror: 15th Century History

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
    By Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

    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.

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    By Barbara Tuchman

    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, ...

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    By Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

    Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.