Barbara W. Tuchman—the acclaimed writer of the Pulitzer Prize–winning vintage The weapons of August—once back marshals her present for personality, heritage, and glowing prose to compose an spectacular portrait of medieval Europe.
The fourteenth century displays contradictory pictures: at the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; at the different, an international plunged into chaos and non secular discomfort. during this revelatory paintings, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not just the nice rhythms of historical past however the grain and texture of household lifestyles: what youth was once like; what marriage intended; how cash, taxes, and struggle ruled the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her topics their loyalties, treacheries, and to blame passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, college students, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, attorneys and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible trojan horse in an iron cocoon.”
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456, fo. 68v) 7. 17 Pillage and burning (BN: Ms. Fr. 2644, fo. one hundred thirty five) 7. 18 A charivari (BN: Ms. Fr. 146, fo. 34) 7. 19 The fourth horseman of the apocalypse (Musée Condé, Chantilly; photograph: Giraudon) 7. 20 The Triumph of dying (Scala/Editorial Photocolor documents) 7. 21 Burial of the plague sufferers (Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles: Ms. 13076–77, fo. 24; photograph: Giraudon) 7. 22 Penitential procession (Musée Condé, Chantilly; picture: Giraudon) 7. 23 A Cardinal (The Metropolitan Museum of artwork, The Cloisters assortment, Munsey Fund, 1932, and reward of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , 1947) 7. 24 Knights (AN; photograph: Giraudon) 7. 25 Peasants (Musée Condé, Chantilly; photograph: Giraudon) 7. 26 Slaughter of the Jacques (BN: Ms. Fr. 2643, fo. 226v) 7. 27 homicide of the marshals (BN: Ms. Fr. 2813, fo. 409v) 7. 28 The war-dog (BN: Ms. Lat. 7239, fo. 61r) 7. 29 The conflict of Sluys (BN: Ms. Fr. 2643, fo. seventy two) 7. 30 Widowed Rome (BN: Ms. Ital. eighty one, fo. 18) 7. 31 Florence (BN: Vb, 37 fol. ) 23. 1 Papal palace at Avignon (Prints department, big apple Public Library) 23. 2 cash (American Numismatic Society) 23. three A Sienese military (from Aldo Cairola, Il Palazzo Pubblico di Siena, Copyright© 1963 Editalia) 23. four, 23. five. The Swiss crusade (Berner Chronik, facsimile ed. , Bern, 1943, vol. 1, pls. 202 and 206, Copyright 1943, Aare Verlag Bern) 23. 6 Sir John Hawkwood (Scala/Editorial Photocolor files) 23. 7 Pierre de Luxemburg (Musée Calvet, Avignon; photograph: Braun) 23. eight Burning of the Jews (Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles: Ms. 13076–77, fo. 12v 23. nine Jew (Cathedral of Tarragona; photograph Mas, Barcelona) 23. 10 Christine de Pisan (BN: Ms. Fr. 835, fo. 1) 23. eleven Jean de Berry (Archives photographiques, Paris) 23. 12 Philip of Burgundy (Photo: Giraudon) 23. thirteen Charles V receiving Aristotle’s Ethics (Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles: Ms. 9505–06, fo. 1) 23. 14 Pope city VI (Photo: Leonard Von Matt, Buochs, Switzerland) 23. 15 Clement VII (Photo: Giraudon) 23. sixteen The siege of Mahdia (BN: Ms. Fr. 2646, fo. seventy nine) 23. 17 Louis d’Orléans (Photo: Giraudon) 23. 18 The Visconti gadget (BN: Ms. Lat. 6340, fo. 901v) 23. 19 Gian Galeazzo Visconti (The Louvre; photograph: Giraudon) 23. 20 Froissart delivering his Chronicles to Charles VI (BN: Ms. Fr. , nouv. acq. , 9604, fo. 1) 23. 21 Gerson preaching (Bibliothèque municipale de Valencienne; picture: Giraudon) 23. 22, 23. 23 Bureau de los angeles Rivière and Cardinal Jean de los angeles Grange (Archives photographiques, Paris) 23. 24 Effigy of Guillaume de Harsigny (Museum of Laon) 23. 25 Danse Macabre (Archives photographiques, Paris) 23. 26 Lamentation of the Virgin (BN: Ms. Lat. 9471, fo. one hundred thirty five) 23. 27 bloodbath of the prisoners at Nicopolis (BN: Ms. Fr. 2646, fo. 255v) 23. 28 Posthumous portrait of Coucy (Museum of Soissons) 23. 29 Ruins of the donjon of Coucy in 1917 (Association for the recovery of Coucy and Its Environs) 23. 30 Coucy-le-Château this day (Photo: S. P. A. D. E. M. ) Foreword The interval, the Protagonist, the dangers The genesis of this booklet used to be a wish to discover what have been the results on society of the main deadly catastrophe of recorded history—that is to claim, of the Black dying of 1348–50, which killed an predicted one 3rd of the inhabitants residing among India and Iceland.