In 1980, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century received the U.S. Tuchman is an American historian who attempts to make connections between the 14th and 20th centuries, with her main focus being World War I in the 20th century.
Tuchman is a work of nonfiction that was originally published in 1978. 1-Page Summary of A Distant Mirror Overall SummaryĪ Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August -a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. a great book, in a great historical tradition. The Wall Street Journal Wise, witty, and wonderful. The New York Review of Books A beautiful, extraordinary book. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. Commentary Review Quotes Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship.
Praise for A Distant Mirror 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. Book Synopsis 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. About the Book Frequently issued with the same ISBN but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
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