![]() She has done nothing finer.” - The Wall Street Journal No one has ever done this better.” - The New York Review of Books Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship. ![]() 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.” ![]() 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. 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. *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() 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 ![]()
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