{"product_id":"distant-mirror-book-barbara-w-tuchman-9780345349576","title":"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e*Lawrence Wright, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of October,\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Distant Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e it 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 \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 \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":49532687483153,"sku":"GOR001749508","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533921034513,"sku":"GOR001708871","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49708855886097,"sku":"CIN0345349571G","price":4.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49725120086289,"sku":"CIN0345349571A","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729952416017,"sku":"NGR9780345349576","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49768496890129,"sku":"GOR011073442","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884911272209,"sku":"CIN0345349571VG","price":5.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50035892257041,"sku":"GOR002639787","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983634993425,"sku":"NIN9780345349576","price":24.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0345349571.jpg?v=1750781164","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/distant-mirror-book-barbara-w-tuchman-9780345349576","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}