About this title: The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues and revolts against a poll tax, amongst other things. Tuchman has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "August 1914" and "Sand Against Wind" and her other ...
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Edition: [Book club ed. ]
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. xxi, 720 p., [20] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 22 cm. Includes index. read more
Edition: [Book club ed. ]
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. xxi, 720 p., [20] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 22 cm. Includes index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. xxi, 720 p., [20] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 22 cm. Includes index. read more
Edition: [Book club ed. ]
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. xxi, 720 p., [20] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 22 cm. Includes index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780394400266ISBN:0394400267
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. A tour de force by the late historian. Who would have thought the 14thC would be so gripping? A must read to discover how little has changed in 700 years. A hugely interesting and entertaining volume. Rubbing and staining, including beverage rings on cover. Smuding on outside of pages. Binding is good and tight and copy is perfect for vacation reading. 11th Printing 12/78. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780394400266ISBN:0394400267
Description: A good reading copy only. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Hard Cover, Good / Good. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: [Book club ed.].
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: Fair in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Small tear on spine of dj. xxi, 720 p., [20] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 22 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [631]-652. read more
"I saw this book for sale at a deep discount and remembered my father having read it back when I was in junior high school. He had told bits and pieces about it during dinner table conversations. So, I bought it out of nostalgic wonder and also out of curiosity. The big "ahah" I got from this book were Tuchman's comments about how only people of royalty and other public figures really count when it comes to recorded history. Her research of the 14th century only turned up recorded facts about the people in power. By the seventh chapter, if you're still with her, she focuses on one particular royal figure: Enguerrand. I think this was a clever instrument to paint the bigger picture for the reader: the world was intensely mixed-up back then; and, in various ways, the unsettled quality of sovereignties resembled the cataclysmic aspects of the twentieth century."
"This was an ambitious project for me, but I was totally engaged by it. The detail would bog down a lesser writer, but Tuchman used her painstaking research to advance the story and thus my understanding of the 1300s in Europe -- mostly western Europe. The historical fiction I've read since finishing this book has seemed so lame in comparison. This will remain one of my favorite books of all time! I'm a slow reader. I started this book at the suggestion of a coworker about three years before I finished it. It took that long only because I would read in it around other books, put it aside for a while and then come back to it. But by the last half, I was carrying it everywhere I went so that I could keep reading. So the date on this entry is when I finished it."
"An excellent book that is full of detail and facts about the 14th century. Barbara Tuchman used numerous sources and tried to locate as many first hand accounts that still exist. It covers the black plague which first appeared during that time and the downfall of the knights and the crusades. Most of the history centers on France, which was the cultural and leading power at that time, and the troubles caused in the "civilized" world when two different men were elected Pope. It was fascinating to read how sophisticated the people were back then, as it is also called the dark ages. I would recommend this book to any history buff."
"I have been a Tuchman fan for years but put off reading this book because it concerned a period of history of which I was not particularly interested. Wrong!!! Chock full of details, it fills in all the details of a bloody, unenlightened time in history where war for no justifiable reason was the norm, crusades against distant lands were the epitome of a knight's duty, and the Black Death was decimating half the world's population. As usual, the author has done extensive research and although it is often difficult to keep all the players straight, it offers a fascinating panoply of a time when "knighthood was in flower". I'm sorry I waited so long to read it."
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