{"id":20726,"date":"2020-01-23T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T23:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?post_type=product&p=20726"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T01:07:39","slug":"a-distant-mirror","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/a-distant-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"A Distant Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barbara W. Tuchman\u2014the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning classic\u00a0The Guns of August<\/i>\u2014once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe.<\/b>
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\nThe 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\u2014in all his valor and \u201cfurious follies,\u201d a \u201cterrible worm in an iron cocoon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[556,193],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":["20135"],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n