{"product_id":"bt-a-distant-mirror-book-barbara-wertheim-tuchman-9780345301451","title":"BT-A Distant Mirror","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Lawrence Wright, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of October, \u003c\/i\u003ein\u003ci\u003e The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Distant Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003eit was. . . . No one has ever done this better.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50120462860561,"sku":"GOR002214082","price":25.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50139351941393,"sku":"CIN0345301455A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50162745344273,"sku":"CIN0345301455VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50165010694417,"sku":"CIN0345301455G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0345301455.jpg?v=1751007134","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/bt-a-distant-mirror-book-barbara-wertheim-tuchman-9780345301451","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}