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Title:
A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
ISBN:
9780345283948

9780345349576
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine, 1979, c1978.
Physical Description:
xx, 677 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
"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 Jacqueline -- 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.
Summary:
The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society.
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