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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
作者: Barbara W. Tuchman;
ISBN13: 9780345349576
類型: 平裝(簡裝書)
語種: 英語(English)
齣版日期: 1991-09-01
齣版社: Random House Trade
頁數: 784
重量(剋): 557
尺寸: 138 x 40 x 208 mm
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Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. 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
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