Esta extensa narrativa histórica se sumerge en el tumultuoso siglo XIV, una era definida por guerras devastadoras, plagas y convulsiones sociales. El autor retrata vívidamente las vidas de gente común y gobernantes poderosos por igual, examinando cómo estas calamidades remodelaron la civilización europea. Ofrece una exploración convincente de uno de los períodos más desafiantes y, sin embargo, transformadores de la historia occidental. La serie es elogiada por su meticulosa investigación y su evocadora representación de la vida medieval.
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 of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.
The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes and war dominated the lives of serf, noble and clergy alike.Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries and guilty passions, Tuchman recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights. The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force.