Distant Mirror: the Turbulent 14th Century

About This Novel

Fourteenth-century Europe contains two conflicting images: a glorious age of crusaders, cathedrals, and chivalry, and a world descending into chaos and mental anguish. Barbara W. Tuchman chose an aristocrat from this period, Enguerain de Courcy, as a narrative carrier, using this man's life to look at the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, extravagant feasts, the mercenary system, cruel taxation, peasant riots and church schism in the Middle Ages... In the end, the ruins carrying that era were left here, watching the fateful human history.

You Might Also Like

Reborn Female General

Qianshan Tea Guest

1.3M9.6