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A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors.

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Author

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345289308

Category

history

Subjects

History, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14