A Distant Mirror
Subtitle: the calamitous fourteenth century
Publisher: The Folio Society
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Copyright date: 1978
Notes: "A Distant Mirror was first published simultaneously in the United States of America and Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. in 1978. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan in 1979." - Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-607) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'I am the Sire de Coucy' : the dynasty; title: Born to woe : the century; title: Youth and chivalry; title: War; title: 'This is the end of the world' : the Black Death; title: The Battle of Poitiers; title: Decapitated France : the bourgeois rising and the Jacquerie; title: Hostage in England; title: Enguerrand and Isabella; title: Sons of iniquity; title: The gilded shroud; title: Double allegiance; title: Coucy's war; title: England's turmoil; title: The emperor in Paris; title: The papal schism; title: Coucy's rise; title: The worms of the earth against the lions; title: The lure of Italy; title: A second Norman Conquest; title: The fiction cracks; title: The siege of Barbary; title: In a dark wood; title: Danse macabre; title: Lost opportunity; title: Nicopolis; title: Hung be the heavens with black; title: Epilogue