A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
(First published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.)
Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.
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Author Information:
- Barbara W. Tuchman (1912 – 1989), Wikipedia.
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Video: Barbara Tuchman
- Barbara Tuchman and Richard Heffner, "'A Distant Mirror' The 14th Century and Today," The Open Mind, Episode 1405, 1979, Archive.org.
- Barbara Tuchman, "Landon Lecture," Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 08 September 1988.
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Wikipedia Articles:
- Enguerrand VII de Coucy (1340 – 1397), French nobleman whose life frames Tuchman's narrative. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Late Middle Ages.
- France in the Middle Ages.
- England in the Late Middle Ages.
- Italy in the Middle Ages.
- Holy Roman Empire: Hohenstaufen dynasty.
Holy Roman Empire: Late Middle Ages. - History of Germany: Middle Ages.
- Spain in the Middle Ages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
- Great Famine of 1315–1317, due to extreme weather events and subsequent poor harvests, possibly related to the transition from the Medieval Warm Period (c. 950 to c. 1250) to the Little Ice Age (16th–19th centuries).
- Black Death, 1346–1353.
- Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
Major Phases of the Hundred Years' War:
- the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
- the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
- the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
- Revolts:
- Popular revolts in late-medieval Europe.
- 1323–1328 Flemish revolt.
- Jacquerie, French peasant revolt of 1358.
- Ciompi Revolt, Florence, 1378–1382.
- Languedoc, 1379.
- Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385).
- Peasants' Revolt, England, 1381.
- Harelle, Rouen, and spread to Paris and other areas of France, 1382.
Maillotins uprising, Paris, 1382.
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Tuchman tells this history from the perspective of the French. Most of my reading on this period has been from the English point of view, so Tuchman's work is an interesting contrast.
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