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BL
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778029
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b598039
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| Main Entry
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Barbara W. Tuchman.
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| Title & Author
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A distant mirror : : the calamitous 14th century\ Barbara W. Tuchman.
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| Publication Statement
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New York : Ballantine, 1979. ©1978
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xx, 677 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0345283945
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: 0345301455
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: 0345349571
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: 9780345283948
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: 9780345301451
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: 9780345349576
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| Contents
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I am the sire de Coucy: the dynasty --; Born to woe: the century --; Youth and chivalry --; War --; "This is the end of the world": the black death --; The battle of poitiers --; Decapitated France: The Bourgeois rising and the Jacqueline --; Hostage in England --; Enguerrand and Isabella --; Sons of iniquity --; The gilded shroud --; Double allegiance --; Coucy's war --; England's turmoil --; The emperor in Paris --; The papal schism --; Coucy's rise --; The worms of the earth against the lions --; The lure of Italy --; A second Norman conquest --; The fiction cracks --; The siege of Barbary --; In a dark wood --; Danse macabre --; Lost opportunity --; Nicopolis --; Hung be the heavens with black.
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| Abstract
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The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society.
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| Subject
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Coucy, Enguerrand de, -- 1340-1397.
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| Subject
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France -- History -- 14th century.
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Nobility -- France -- Biography.
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| LC Classification
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DC97.5B373 9999
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| Added Entry
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Barbara W Tuchman
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