Bibliograph

A distant mirror, the calamitous 14th century, Barbara W. Tuchman

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Label

A distant mirror, the calamitous 14th century, Barbara W. Tuchman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-617) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A distant mirror

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

3870107

Responsibility statement

Barbara W. Tuchman

Sub title

the calamitous 14th century

Summary

Examines the history of fourteenth century Europe as background to the life of Enguerrand de Coucy VII, one of the most prominent French knights of that time

Table Of 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 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

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