A biographical evocation of our medieval soul
Review of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
The Medieval era marked us more deeply, as the source of so many of our touchstone images and ideas, than just about any other - dungeons, cold, early death, blind faith, religious fanaticism, capricious tyranny, and the knightly order of repression and honor. Tuchman questions these stereotypes and myths by holding them to intelligent scrutiny.
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