A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: 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.
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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-17-2009; Needed a Good Editor; While the subject matter is interesting, the author buries it in unimportant details. I read a few other reviews and the terms, bore, slog and fight through are appropriate in reference to reading this tome. A good editor would have...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-01-2009; scholarly treatise; A distant mirror is a scholarly treatise on the politics, government, health conditions and social system of the 14th century. Too detailed for the casual reader, it's a useful study of the history of the period.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-13-2008; Symphony of historiography; 'A Distant Mirror' has been my most satisfying read in years. Ms Tuchman lays out the events of the 14th century in rich but comprehensible detail. She paints a truly convincing picture of the age and one comes away with a remarkable...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-30-2008; A Distant Mirror; Barbra Tuchman's A Distant Mirror is an excellent narrative history of the period, highly readable, and thoroughly researched. Cast as an extended biography of a singular figure whose life almost exactly bracketed a tumultous period in...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-01-2009; scholarly treatise; A distant mirror is a scholarly treatise on the politics, government, health conditions and social system of the 14th century. Too detailed for the casual reader, it's a useful study of the history of the period.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-05-2008; A good, but not great, book; Tuchman builds a wonderful mental picture of the 14th century, and what it must have been like to live back then. She follows the 14th century through the life of a French nobleman (but not a king). This led to a book that isn't a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-17-2009; Needed a Good Editor; While the subject matter is interesting, the author buries it in unimportant details. I read a few other reviews and the terms, bore, slog and fight through are appropriate in reference to reading this tome. A good editor would have...; read full review | report as inappropriate