{"product_id":"9780241972977","title":"A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Tuchman, Barbara W. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/10\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 784 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241972977,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourteenth century was a time of  fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of  ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes and war dominated the lives of serf, noble and clergy alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGranting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries and guilty passions, Tuchman recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights.  The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40521331834924,"sku":"9780241972977","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241972977_5814c3f0-bfdd-4f62-80bd-cfbfc3eee903.jpg?v=1759658520","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241972977","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}