{"product_id":"a-distant-mirror-book-by-barbara-w-tuchman","title":"A Distant Mirror\nBook by Barbara W. Tuchman","description":"\u003cp\u003eA “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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e*Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. 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. 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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePraise for A Distant Mirror\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55258665943331,"sku":null,"price":490.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55258665976099,"sku":null,"price":620.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55258666008867,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_a180f4b3-6cff-442f-96ba-ffe67f419eb3.jpg?v=1781868761","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/a-distant-mirror-book-by-barbara-w-tuchman","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}