books.google.com - The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms...http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Distant_Mirror.html?id=BmRoOIwLWhsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Distant Mirror
