A Distant Mirror
Subtitle:  The Calamitous 14th Century
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: June 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780345910905
Subjects: General; History / General; History; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: Codiacum, supposedly derived from Codex, codicis, meaning a tree trunk stripped of its branches such as those the Gauls used to build their palisades.