{"product_id":"barbara-tuchman-w-a-distant-mirror-9780345349576","title":"A Distant Mirror","description":"A \"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 The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal 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.\" Praise for A Distant Mirror \"Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.\"-The New York Review of Books \"A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.\"-The Wall Street Journal \"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.\"-Commentary","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53378752577878,"sku":"9780345349576-G","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - acceptable","offer_id":53602152153430,"sku":"9780345349576-B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780345349576_1_6c73c922-7c16-472a-82e8-e9bbcfd05775.jpg?v=1778055309","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/barbara-tuchman-w-a-distant-mirror-9780345349576","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}