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A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century Biography & True Stories ' It is 1973 andAuthor: Tuchman, Barbara France Published on 5 October 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 784 pages 201 x 137 x 48 540g The 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. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of