A Distant Mirror: 15th Century History

"Wise witty and wonderful . . . A great book in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory a glittering time of crusades and castles cathedrals and chivalry and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony a world plunged into a chaos of war fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.