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Nice, Josh! The Landmark Herodotus is beautiful. A Distant Mirror is an outstanding book -- I read it when I was like 15 and still recall it as one of the best history books I've ever read.

Well I got some Borders gift cards from people so I went today and got: Simpsons 2010 Calendar A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman The Dancing Plague by John Waller and The Landmark Herodotus ed. by Robert Strassler The last one I got like $20 off because it was mislabeled ...

#22, ffortsa, Thanks for stopping by. I have actually read A Distant Mirror and love it and most of the other books by Tuchman that I've read (especially The Guns of August, which I've read twice, and The Proud Tower, which was one of my favorites of last year), but I would like to read it ...

#22, ffortsa, Thanks for stopping by. I have actually read A Distant Mirror and love it and most of the other books by Tuchman that I've read (especially The Guns of August, which I've read twice, and The Proud Tower, which was one of my favorites of last year), but I would like to read it ...

My favorite was A Distant Mirror, read in my teenage years. Great stuff!

I downloaded from overdrive today The Decameron and A Distant Mirror. Overdrive is a great service but it is sooooooooo slooowww downloading. These two have taken me three hours to load onto my ipod and I have one more to go! I don't know if I will ever get to hear them as my current audio ...

A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman - read in 1986, or so.

#33 I really want to listen to Barbara Tuchman's Distant Mirror. I'm glad to hear you think her work goes down well in audio. There is a new book about the Bubonic Plague that I also want to do in audio format. For now I have only been listening to mostly light novels, but I plan to try some ...

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman

TBR 1. Mawson: A Life by Philip Ayres 2. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman 3. Pioneer Women by Joanna L. Stratton 4. Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin 5. Thirteen American Arguments by Howard Fineman **** 12/26/09 ...

Challenge dates: October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010 Here are my categories and some preliminary titles for 2010. Might as well really ...

... pile down to 68. This was a 2008 Christmas present from my brother and his wife. My review of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: Barbara W. Tuchman tells the story of Europe in the 14th century through the figure of Enguerrand VII, Sire de Coucy, a minor French baron who had ...

... Middle Ages. The latest one in that series is Agincourt. Also Barbara Tuchman wrote a classic about the middle ages A Distant Mirror. It has a little bit of everything about the medieval period in it. I have been trashing Tracy Chevalier lately becuase Burning Bright was such a ...

... with the others and at least it may have some issues worth discussing.?.?.? (hopefully) Have added Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror in the hopes that when I read it, it may fill in the gaps left by "WWOE". Thanx for the rec and the review (I guess); no, just teasin'. big hug, belva

I've finished Ken Follett's World Without End, and will start Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror when I get home tonight, thus bringing the TBR pile down to 69. "A Distant Mirror" is a history of the 14th century and covers much the same period as World Without End. I read it about 25 ...

An excellent look at the Black Death can be found in Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. It's a survey of Europe in the fourteenth century. Great read, but then I like Tuchman.

... eleven including short story collections is great for fans of both hard sci-fi and time travel. Time and Again, The Mirror by marilys Millhiser, Flashforward. A Shortcut in Time. The House on the Strand and I have to get in a yes vote for Julian May whose 9 book epic on time ...

... had trouble finishing The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which I've been reading off and on for almost a year, and A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Both are very interesting, but long and a little dry. I'll pick them up again one of these days. I've also tried twice ...

... focused on things that I wouldn't have paid such close attention to.) Also, there's a chapter in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror which is worth reading.
*... and that for more general reading in medieval history I would suggest his The Civilization of the Middle Ages ...

... Child 44) to reading some of the non-fiction books in my TBR pile. I've chosen the following, in no particular order: A Distant Mirror (already started, need to finish) Wesley the Owl Alex and Me A Lion Called Christian Reading Lolita in Tehran A History of Reading John Ada ...

... I enjoyed as a teen). 32) And... what are you reading right now? The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Spook's Curse, and A Distant Mirror.

... a lifelike that I would have to jump out of the nearest fifth story window rather than go on. 28) Work of nonfiction? A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman 29) Who is your favorite writer? Bernard Cornwell and Thomas Hardy 30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? Stephani ...

#267 A Distant Mirror is my birst Barbara Tuchman, but it won't be my last!. Thanks for the Jonathan Sumption rec. I'll have to check it out.

I've started A Distant Mirror.

... started but am not even near finishing: To Say Nothing of the Dog, Un Lun Dun, His Excellency: George Washington and A Distant Mirror. I think they are all good, (except His Excellency is kind of dry) but events have put me into a book funk, and I haven't been able to focus.

... by Anne Applebaum A Devil of a Whipping by Lawrence E. Babits The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman Churchill's Generals by John Keegan The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the So ...

What? Fiction only? Where does it say that? Does this mean I have to replace A Distant Mirror with something else? Grrrrrr!

... Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy I know I've cheated a little by ...

... Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy I know I've cheated a little by ...

... familiar since I have ancestors from Alsace whom my mother always claimed as French It's a very long time since I read The Distant Mirror -- if I had more time and many fewer books on the TBR pile, I would reread it. Thanks for the Barbara Tuchman link, which reminded me that she was the ...

... in its minute descriptions of the opening diplomatic and military moves of WW1. Also, her book on the 14 century The Distant Mirror is brilliant. Tuchman herself was an exceptionally interesting person. She won the Pulitzer twice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman#Aw ...

I'm currently reading A Distant Mirror and I'm really enjoying it. Tuchman does a good job with it and I'll be checking out some of her other titles.

My favorite is actually The Guns of August, which may be due for a reread. It's a long time since I read A Distant Mirror, but that also might be due for a reread -- if only I didn't have all those books on the TBR crying out to be read for the first time. Stasia, I touted it earlier this ...

I've read A Distant Mirror by had not heard of The Proud Tower. I've added it to the tbr pile. I very much like your description.

Macbeth, I love A Distant Mirror. It's a great book, and Tuchman was such a great writer.

For me - I can never go past A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. This was the first serious 'adult' history book I read right through in my early teens and I devoured it. Another old favourite is The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser. I have given away my first two copies and ...

... I only succeeded for one week! Here's what I got: Territory by Emma Bull The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman Un Lun Dun by China Mieville Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata The Last Apprentice (Revenge of the Witch) I had an extremely ...

... April by Elizabeth von Arnim, and then two boxed sets by Barbara Tuchman which include The March of Folly and A Distant Mirror in one and The Proud Tower and The Guns of August in the other. *sigh* Bliss, I am in bliss. I also used my gift card and got Seer of Egypt by P ...

#134 I hope you like it! #135 Thanks for the recommendation, Linda. I've seen A Distant Mirror before and thought it looked interesting. Added to the ever growing TBR pile.

Lorie If you haven't read Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, this might be a book to further your knowledge regarding the middle ages.

It is, I believe, with A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. I've read only The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War : 1890-1914, before. Marvelous, and rather frightening, though I have heard doubts cast on her viewpoint and accuracy.

I knew next to nothing about medieval France when I first encountered and read A Distant Mirror, so I enjoyed it. If she had been writing about medieval Germany, I might not have. I've studied a lot more about medieval Europe over the years since, including a good bit of historiography, and ...

#38, Cemanuel, I'm surprised Bernie would comment on A Distant Mirror as I thought his expertise was Roman Gaul.

If you want to read A Distant Mirror you may be entertained but you likely won't learn much. Or at least not much that you won't later have to unlearn. Bernard Bachrach wrote a scathing review of it in the June, 1979 issue of The American Historical Review. Now Bernie's well known for ...

I'm planning to read The Mirror next.

... a lot of things happened in that interval. For the late Middle Ages I would recommend The Name of the Rose by Eco, and A Distant Mirror by Tuchman. For the earlier Middle Ages it is hard to beat the work of Bernard Cornwell, his Arthurian Britain series.."The Warlord Chronicles", ...

... February 3. Mysteries of the Middle Ages February 4. Life in a Medieval Village March 5. A Distant Mirror December 6. 7. 8. 9. IV. Biographies 1. John Adams April 2009 2. Zelda June 3. Queen Victoria February 2 ...

The Empty Chair, by Jeffrey Deaver Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner A Distant Mirror, by Barbara Tuchman The Hidden Window Mystery, by Carolyn Keene The Vacant Chair, by Reid Hardman Mitchell

... Tracking Trash The Robber Bride The Knitters Book of Yarn The Mysts of Avalon American Gods Don Quixote A Distant Mirror A Mercy Crime and Punishment Ulysses Outlander The Lathe of Heaven The Meaning of Wife

#43 joycepa: I have read both The Guns of August and A Distant Mirror. I really like Tuchman's style of writing and hopefully, will be able to read her entire oeuvre before I am done. She has written one called Bible and Sword that I would really like to get to, but have not had a chance ...

The Proud Tower is excellent but so are all her books. I'm assuming you've read The Guns of August? And don't miss A Distant Mirror. Why do I feel like I've already had this conversation? I mean I know I'm getting up there, but I shouldn't be that bad yet!

I finished A Distant Mirror and read The Polysyllabic Spree, and snuck in a book by Dean Koonz (boooring) and Running Blind by Lee child. Next up: The Great Improvisation, since I bought it for my brother for Christmas but haven't read it yet.

... Cuzco. I'd like to see Brazil but it's probably too much to do in even an extended trip. Tuchman—I own a copy of A Distant Mirror, so I'll probably go ahead and read that as my second Tuchman.

... tower, which are related. Two other absolutely terrific books are Stillwell and the American experience in china and A Distant Mirror. there are a couple of others worth reading as well. I wound up my career as a senior research scientist for Boeing and found that I enjoyed industry ...

... for years to read the biography--gonna have to get to it one of these days. By the way, I'm also a fan of Tuchman's, A Distant Mirror. :-)

Hi everyone - just joined and happy to be here. I'm reading A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. I've been on a 14th - 15th century tear lately and am enjoying it so far.

... automatically appear as links. I too love history. Especially all things middle ages. Right now I am working through A Distant Mirror about the plague. I picked it up because of a recommendation by Dave Carlin of the podcast alcottacre in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : What Are We Reading - Nonfiction (Nov 12, 2008, 3:00am)

I second sgtbigg's recommendation of A Distant Mirror. Frankly, I would second the recommendation of just about all of Tuchman's works. She was an immensely readable historian - characteristics that do not necessarily go hand in hand with historians.

#63 - Have you read Tuchman's A Distant Mirror? She does a great job with 14th Century Europe. If you haven't already read it and you have any interest in the subject at all I highly recommend it.

From A Distant Mirror "Teutonic knights in their annual forays against the unconverted natives of Lithuania conducted manhunts of the peasants for sport."

I just bought A Distant Mirror. Thanks for the rec.

... UNreliable. Cantor, on the other hand, can be good if you know and allow for his biases 8-) Opinions on Tuchman(whose Distant Mirror I quite enjoyed back when I first read it and knew less about medieval Europe than I did later) seem to be less that she is unreliable than that she is ...

... Pernoud's Joan of Arc: Her Story * Lynn Sherr's Failure is Impossible * Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror * David von Drehle's Triangle * Barbara Walker's four knitting treasuries (A Treasury of Knitting Patterns and so on) * A ...

A Distant Mirror A Distant Trumpet The Trumpet of the Swan Swan Peak White Peak Farm

... versus "Harrison, John, b.1693" for Longitude. Or in "Coucy, Enguerrand de" or "Coucy, Enguerrand de, 1340-1397" for A Distant Mirror. I also spotted an interesting, if unusual, variation of the extra-comma version for Tess of the d'Urbervilles. "Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 Tess of the ...

... Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh Clue of the Dancing Puppet by Carolyn Keene the Distant Clue by Richard Lockridge A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman taking off from #27: Windy City Knights by Michael A. Black City of Gold and Shadows by Ellis Peter ...

Far out isn't far enough, by Tomi Ungerer A Distant Mirror, by Barbara Tuchman Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx Far Off Things, by Arthur Machen Unhappy Far-Off Things, by Lord Dunsany

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

... store. 1688: A Global History (read) Life Among the Pirates (read) Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen (read) A Distant Mirror (read) The Classical Greeks (reading)

I like Tuchman's Distant Mirror which was full of detail as well as providing a broad historical narrative - yes, you could say some of it is trivial, but I prefer to see that as adding colour to the narrative, rather than detracting from it. It's not dryly academic. I haven't tried Norm ...

I doubt that I would let anyone take my copy of A Distant Mirror

... I was friends with a couple who scoped out my bookshelves and "borrowed" two books one of which was Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. I didn't mind because I thought they were reasonable people, but when the books didn't come back after a reasonable amount of time I became a little put ...

The only one I know I read was Eye of the Needle, although I have shared houses with copies of Gnomes, Fairies, and A Distant Mirror.

I have read War and Remembrance and The Complete Book of Running. I own, but have not read, A Distant Mirror and RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (no great admirer of Nixon, but I have biographies of all of the presidents) Geneg, I think you are taking a "glass-half-empty" view of James ...

I've read and still own A Distant Mirror and In Search of History. This is about the time I began to ignore fiction in favor of non-fiction: I mean have YOU read any of the best-selling fiction of the seventies and eighties? James Fixx reminds me of the story of the Man Who Saw Everything Twi ...

... Strings, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 130 copies 6. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon 127 copies 7. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman 1,810 copies 8. Faeries, Brian Froud and Alan Lee 688 copies 9. ln Search of Histor ...

... 12) Le Petit Prince 13) Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg 14) Beowulf -- in the original Old English 15) A Distant Mirror Barbara Tuchman 16) Riverside Shakespeare 17) Riverside Chaucer 18) Iliad and Odyssey -- packaged together 19) By the Light of My Father's Smil ...

... The Ancient Historians 941 – The Shorter Pepys 942 – Sir Francis Drake 943 - Inside the Third Reich 944 – A Distant Mirror 945 – The City of Falling Angels 951 – The Devil Soldier 954 – Daughter of Destiny 962 – In An Antique Land 964 - The Caliph's House: ...

I have a blog, too. I posted my review of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror (direct link) there, and then my review of the other Early Review book I got (now see here< ...

That's an interesting way of looking at it. The fact that I've reviewed A Distant Mirror (link) -- whether or not you consider that someone gave it a thumbs-up -- would indeed signify that I'm probably a good match for books about ...

... ike> 4. The English Civil War 5. The Steel Bonnets 6. Blood and Roses 7. A Distant Mirror 8. Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe

... 3/1/05; Ivanhoe 7/1/03. Last of the month: I finished The Life of Elizabeth I 7/31/06 and A Distant Mirror 6/30/06. New Year's Near Misses: I finished Sense and Sensibility 1/2/03; The Virgin Blue 12/29/05 and Tudor Women 1/ ...

... & Flannery O'Conner. Nature essays by Sue Hubbell & Anne Dillard'sPilgrim at Tinker Creek Barbara Tuchman historical Distant Mirror. All classics in their respective fields.

... Short Stories, Cora Sandel (short stories, Norway) A Country Year: Living the Questions, Sue Hubbell (essays, US) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara W. Tuchman (nonfiction/Europe) Distant View of a Minaret, Alifa Rifaat (short stories, Egypt, trans . from the Arab ...

... said, I've just updated the wording at the end of my review of A Distant Mirror to make it clearer that I wrote my own darn review.)

... in sympathetic light (if Henry V was the good guy how could Joan of Arc also be the good guy). However I think it was A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman that was my first serious history book, certainly the most influential. Cheers

6 History 1. A Distant Mirror 2. Himmler 3. Stonehenge Decoded 4. 1066 and All That 5. Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings 6. A Popular History of the Church of England 7. 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta 8.

... this shouldn't apply. But most of the time, it should and does apply (The Age of Innocence goes with the A's, A Distant Mirror goes with the D's). My point was more that we need something that's going to be consistant. I don't need to shift the word order of The Age of Inn ...

So a while back I made a brief comment about A Distant Mirror based on two reviews I had read. But many people here probably don't have access to back issues of American Historical Review and Speculum. And I would be curious to have someone eho has read the book and liked it, respond to these ...

I read A Distant Mirror a lifetime ago, but intervening events/years have dimmed the memory of it. I'll have to reread it. And no, I haven't read Kelly's book but it sounds really interesting; I'll look for it. Thanks!

... half of the Middle Ages.) There's a good chapter -- hang on, a well-written chapter -- about it in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, too.

... Europe, you're going to end up reading it sooner or later. Make it sooner. * For that matter, Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century is another such classic. And I get to plug my review of the book ...

... in storage, and it's probably kind of a specialty subject area. I will say, however, that I liked Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror and John Kelly's The Great Mortality (and Helen Castor's Blood and Roses is on the TBR pile). </rant> I'll shut up ...

Jthierer, I read A Distant Mirror and also The Zimmermann Telegram by the same author. She does have a way of making history interesting! I'm about to start Think: Why Crucial Decisions Can't be Made in the Blink of an Eye by Michael R. LeGault. I want to compare it to Blink by M ...

... Ages. It may be a bit dry, and it is certainly long, but it does cover the broad sweep of medieval history. I've got A Distant Mirror sitting on my shelf. I've been meaning to get to it.

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff The Crystal Bible craft related Creative Glass Cretive Window Treatments How to Work in Stained Glass Stai ...

No Crystal Stair The Valley of the Squinting Windows Mirror Mirror A Distant Mirror Map of Glass

... in the midst of the Knight's Tale right now. I'm really glad that I read a history of the 14th century (Tuchman's A Distant Mirror) before finally picking this one up-- it really helped set the context. I'm looking for a fun book to offset the Canterbury Tales (though it's more ...

A Distant Mirror has a generally bad reputation among medievalists for factual accuracy and poor interpretations, Barabara was not a medieval scholar and she only spent a few years researching. The Making of the Middle Ages was the first medieval history book to connect Romanticism as the ...

... The books average about four to six hundred pages and are mostly non-fiction and good literature. Right now I am reading A Distant Mirror and The Age of Federalism. My big fiction project this year has been War and Peace. I feel like I'm in graduate school all the time and I love it. I ...

... The Dark Ages written for YA that gives a good overview. There are also biographies of Charlemagne that cover the era. A distant mirror is great for the 14th. century. Actually, I have found some fiction-Ellis Peters & her pBrother Cadfael series of mysteries come to mind as does works by ...

Doh, I have miscalled that book since the day it was published. Like a mental tick. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. No wonder it couldn't find a touchstone for it. Once again, thank you all for your suggestions. I feel like I will have trove of riches to choose from.

a distant mirror

... Mughals by William Dalrymple about 18th century India. Books by Barbara Tuchman such as Zimmerman Telegram or A Distant Mirror Enjoy!

If this discussion isn't already dead, I'd just like to say (in relation to A Distant Mirror) that I read it a few years ago, and I must admit I don't recall much about any comparisons she made with the present. I just remember an extraordinarily vivid picture of the 14th century. But, my ...

... other issues or sources that would contradict or alter the argument. jmnlman mentioned Barbara Tuchman. Her popular A Distant Mirror received very poor reviews from the academics, not because her facts were wrong, but because they argue that her attempt to use the 14th century as a ...

... mentioned: To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Plague Tales, Time and Again, Replay. One that hasn't been mentioned is The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser. The Timeshare Trilogy by Joshua Dann is quite enjoyable as well.

I have Wicked and Mirror, Mirror, both by Gregory Maguire. Neither book was what I really expected, but they were both interesting in their own right. Wicked was a completely different spin on The Wizard of Oz, and, although it got lengthy at times, I enjoyed it. Mirror, Mirror really never ...

I'm reading A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman and although I'm progressing slowly, I'm enjoying the wealth of information about the 14th century.

... An Englishman's World by Robert Lacey. I also liked Barbara Tuchman's history on the plague in the 14th century ~ A Distant Mirror. One I've heard about & want to read is A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind & the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age by William Manchester. Ho ...