About this title: The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues and revolts against a poll tax, amongst other things. Tuchman has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "August 1914" and "Sand Against Wind" and her other ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Acceptable. Bumping to edges. Extensively read Tanning to pages. READING COPY ONLY A usable copy. Please note that this book will show signs of wear and will have been extensively read but all pages will be in tact with it's binding secure unless stated. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. Spine-Slightly worn in accordance with age and use. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780333197523ISBN:0333197526
Description: Good. Our aim is to create value for our customers through the provision of low cost, affordable products and an overall satisfying buying experience. read more
Description: Reader copy. Papermac 1989 paperback. Sold as a reading copy only. Pages tanned, text bright. Pencil price to inside page. Heavy creasing to cover with some marks. Small crease to a few page corners. A few small marks to closed page edge. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1980. Paperback. Number of pages: 704. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1980. Paperback. Number of pages: 704. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. With Index. With owners inscription. Corners bumped. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1980. Paperback. Number of pages: 704. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8337277 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1980. Paperback. Number of pages: 704. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 1980. Paperback. Number of pages: 704. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8427214 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054071ISBN:0140054073
Description: Good. Has a little light tanning to page edges, and a couple of light creases to spine-otherwise a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. read more
Description: 1979. BCA. Reprint. Book-Good, spine and top of front cover sunned. DJ-God, edgewear and dirty. 9.5x6. 677pp. 3 b/w maps, 61 b/w plates. Endpaper maps. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780394400266ISBN:0394400267
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. A tour de force by the late historian. Who would have thought the 14thC would be so gripping? A must read to discover how little has changed in 700 years. A hugely interesting and entertaining volume. Rubbing and staining, including beverage rings on cover. Smuding on outside of pages. Binding is good and tight and copy is perfect for vacation reading. 11th Printing 12/78. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780394400266ISBN:0394400267
Description: A good reading copy only. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Hard Cover, Good / Good. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"I saw this book for sale at a deep discount and remembered my father having read it back when I was in junior high school. He had told bits and pieces about it during dinner table conversations. So, I bought it out of nostalgic wonder and also out of curiosity. The big "ahah" I got from this book were Tuchman's comments about how only people of royalty and other public figures really count when it comes to recorded history. Her research of the 14th century only turned up recorded facts about the people in power. By the seventh chapter, if you're still with her, she focuses on one particular royal figure: Enguerrand. I think this was a clever instrument to paint the bigger picture for the reader: the world was intensely mixed-up back then; and, in various ways, the unsettled quality of sovereignties resembled the cataclysmic aspects of the twentieth century."
"This was an ambitious project for me, but I was totally engaged by it. The detail would bog down a lesser writer, but Tuchman used her painstaking research to advance the story and thus my understanding of the 1300s in Europe -- mostly western Europe. The historical fiction I've read since finishing this book has seemed so lame in comparison. This will remain one of my favorite books of all time! I'm a slow reader. I started this book at the suggestion of a coworker about three years before I finished it. It took that long only because I would read in it around other books, put it aside for a while and then come back to it. But by the last half, I was carrying it everywhere I went so that I could keep reading. So the date on this entry is when I finished it."
"An excellent book that is full of detail and facts about the 14th century. Barbara Tuchman used numerous sources and tried to locate as many first hand accounts that still exist. It covers the black plague which first appeared during that time and the downfall of the knights and the crusades. Most of the history centers on France, which was the cultural and leading power at that time, and the troubles caused in the "civilized" world when two different men were elected Pope. It was fascinating to read how sophisticated the people were back then, as it is also called the dark ages. I would recommend this book to any history buff."
"I have been a Tuchman fan for years but put off reading this book because it concerned a period of history of which I was not particularly interested. Wrong!!! Chock full of details, it fills in all the details of a bloody, unenlightened time in history where war for no justifiable reason was the norm, crusades against distant lands were the epitome of a knight's duty, and the Black Death was decimating half the world's population. As usual, the author has done extensive research and although it is often difficult to keep all the players straight, it offers a fascinating panoply of a time when "knighthood was in flower". I'm sorry I waited so long to read it."
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