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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History Annotations (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. Distant mirror. New York : Knopf, 1978 (OCoLC)609760551 |
Named Person: | Enguerrand de Coucy; Enguerrand de Coucy; Enguerrand de Coucy |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara W Tuchman |
ISBN: | 0394400267 9780394400266 9780307291608 030729160X 0345349571 9780345349576 |
OCLC Number: | 3870107 |
Awards: | Winner of National Book Awards 1980 |
Description: | xx, 677 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | "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 Jacquerie -- 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. |
Responsibility: | Barbara W. Tuchman. |
Abstract:
Examines the history of fourteenth century Europe as background to the life of Enguerrand de Coucy VII, one of the most prominent French knights of that time.
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