April 12, 2024
Franklin Library: 14th Century Europe: Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror
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Franklin Library FULL leather edition Barbara W. Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century," one of THE FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series with a 'facsimile signature', published in 1978. Bound in a GORGEOUS black leather, the book has scarlet red French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE, unread condition. 735 pages, including an index. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, who was born in 1912, was a New York-born journalist and historian. Tuchman wrote in a special message to subscribers: "The 14th century like the 20th century suffered from recurring wars and expanding violence. . . Institutions---knighthood and the church then, government and the schools now---were failing in their assigned functions and losing popular trust. "Unmoored and dismayed, people in both periods have sought guidance in the supernatural; sorcery and demonology flourished then as they have lately. Sadism and pornography flourished too, on the stage and in other forms of entertainment. Freak orders of mystics, the dropouts and hippies of the 14th century, lived in coeducational communes, rejected marriage, and glorified sexual indulgence. Pessimism was a common theme of 14th and 20th century literature. Man was believed to be growing worse, not better, and the same belief is personified in
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