A Distant Mirror
Subtitle:  The Calamitous 14th Century
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: July 12, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780345349576
Subjects: History: World; History; Coucy, Enguerrand de,; History - General History; Nobility; Medieval; Europe - France; History / Europe / General; Biography; 1340-1397; 14th century; France
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.