A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
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New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2014].
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9780345349576, 0345349571, 9781439558577, 1439558574
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Published
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2014].
Format
Book
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xxvii, 714 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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English
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9780345349576, 0345349571, 9781439558577, 1439558574

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Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 635-685) and index.
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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. Barbara 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."

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Tuchman, B. W. 1. (2014). A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century (Random House trade paperback edition.). Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Tuchman, Barbara W. 1912-1989. 2014. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Tuchman, Barbara W. 1912-1989. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Tuchman, Barbara W. 1912-1989. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Random House trade paperback edition., Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.

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