{"product_id":"book-brjj","title":"A Distant Mirror: Part 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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 \u003cem\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Lawrence Wright, author of \u003cem\u003eThe End of October\u003c\/em\u003e, in \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49394517508400,"sku":"ZEbrjj","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/brjj-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782362973","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-brjj","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}