She has done nothing finer." - The Wall Street Journal "Wise, witty, and wonderful. No one has ever done this better." - The New York Review of Books "A beautiful, extraordinary book.
Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. 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." Praise for A Distant Mirror "Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship. 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. Tuchman-the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August -once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe.
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