Distant Mirror: The Destructive 14th Century

Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) - an American writer and historian. Twice a Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "The Guns of August" and "The March of Folly." The 14th century - a turning point. One of the darkest and most mysterious centuries... not only in French but also in European history. A time of the "Avignon Papacy," the Hundred Years' War, the pandemic of the "Black Death," which claimed the lives of a third of Europe's population, the short and bloody Jacquerie, and the flourishing of many bizarre heresies. A time of violence and lawlessness, hunger and devastation, disbelief and despair. But life continues even in the darkest times… Before the reader is a unique book, in which the author transforms the history of the de Coucy family into a peculiar mirror reflecting the very history of the 14th century…