Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century [2017] paperback Condition:New Tiring of their own corrupt

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Dunbar suggests these dimensions might provide the basis for an overarching theory for why and how humans are religious

Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century [2017] paperback Condition:New Tiring of their own corruptThe 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