02547cam a2200361 i 4500 122750148 TxAuBib 20040902120000.0 780418s1978||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 78005985 //r962 9780394400266 0394400267 (OCoLC)3870107 TxAuBib rda Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century / Barbara W. Tuchman. 1st trade ed. New York : Knopf, 1978. xx, 677 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Bibliography: p. [599]-617. "I am the Sire de Coucy": The dynasty -- Born to woe: The century -- Youth and chivalry -- War -- "This is the end of the world": The Black Death -- The Battle of Poitiers -- Decapitated France: The Bourgeois rising and the Jacquerie -- Hostage in England -- Enguerrand and Isabella -- Sons of iniquity -- The gilded shroud -- Double allegiance -- Coucy's war -- England's turmoil -- The emperor in Paris -- The papal schism -- Coucy's rise -- The worms of the earth against the lions -- The lure of Italy -- A second Norman conquest -- The fiction cracks -- The siege of Barbary -- In a dark wood -- Danse macabre -- Lost opportunity -- Nicopolis -- Hung be the heavens with black. 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. 20040902. Coucy, Enguerrand de 1340-1397. Civilization, Medieval 14th century. Nobility France Biography. France History 14th century. TXING