The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
This vivid panorama - revealing the extraordinary world of western Europe between 1300 and 1450 in evocative portrait and telling detail - has been acclaimed as Barbara Tuchman's finest achievement.
In these eminently readable and compelling pages she brings the insights of a modern historian to bear on the decades of Chaucer and Boccaccio, the times of the Hundred Years' War and the Back Death, of the great fame of Dante, of extravagant civilization and bizarre superstition, of pilgrimage and plague, of revolutionary new technologies and enraged revolt against a poll tax.
