A Distant Mirror_ The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman [1]
France after the Treaty of Brétigny, 1360
Italy in 1360
The Swiss Campaign, 1375–76
Nicopolis and Other Castles on the Danube (BN: Ms. Lat. 7239, fo. 113–14)
Illustrations
COLOR PLATES
1. The royal palace in Paris (BN: Ms. Fr. 23279, fo. 53)
2, 3. The Effects of Good Government, in the City and in the Country, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Scala/Editorial Photocolor Archives)
4. The Battle of Poitiers (BN: Ms. Fr. 2643, fo. 207)
5. Deer hunt from Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans (BN: Ms. Lat. 1156B, fo. 163)
6. Guidoriccio da Fogliano, by Simone Martini (Scala/Editorial Photocolor Archives)
7. Banquet for the Emperor (BN: Ms. Fr. 2813, fo. 473v)
8. Departure for Mahdia campaign (British Museum: Harleian mss. 4379, fo. 60b)
9. Bal des Ardents (BN: Ms. Fr. 2646, fo. 176)
BLACK AND WHITE PLATES
7.1Coucy-le-Château (from Androuet Du Cerceau, Les plus excellents bâtiments de France, 1648)
7.2The abandoned castle in later years (from Alexandre Du Sommerard, Les Arts au Moyen Age, 10th ser., pl. IX)
7.3 Fortune’s wheel (Morgan Library: Ms. 324, fo. 34v)
7.4 Coucy’s seals (AN: Bureaux des sceaux)
7.5 Chaucer’s squire (The Huntington Library: Ellesmere ms. 26, C9)
7.6 A 14th century carriage (Zentralbibliothek, Zürich)
7.7 View of Paris (BN: Ms. Fr. 2645, fo. 321v)
7.8 A country village (BN: Ms. Fr. 22531)
7.9 Charles of Navarre (Photo: Giraudon)
7.10 Jean II (The Louvre)
7.11 The Black Prince (Dean and Chapter of Canterbury)
7.12 English archers (British Museum: Addit. mss. 42130, fo. 147v)
7.13 View of London (British Museum: Royal mss. 16F 11, fo. 73)
7.14 The Last Judgment (Archives photographiques, Paris)
7.15 The world as a globe (BN: Ms. 574, fo. 42)
7.16 The child’s education (Morgan Library: Ms. 456, fo. 68v)
7.17 Pillage and burning (BN: Ms. Fr. 2644, fo. 135)
7.18 A charivari (BN: Ms. Fr. 146, fo. 34)
7.19 The fourth horseman of the apocalypse (Musée Condé, Chantilly; Photo: Giraudon)
7.20 The Triumph of Death (Scala/Editorial Photocolor Archives)
7.21 Burial of the plague victims (Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles: Ms. 13076–77, fo. 24; Photo: Giraudon)
7.22 Penitential procession (Musée Condé, Chantilly; Photo: Giraudon)
7.23 A Cardinal (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, Munsey Fund, 1932, and Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1947)
7.24 Knights (AN; Photo: Giraudon)
7.25 Peasants (Musée Condé, Chantilly; Photo: Giraudon)
7.26 Slaughter of the Jacques (BN: Ms. Fr. 2643, fo. 226v)
7.27 Murder of the marshals (BN: Ms. Fr. 2813, fo. 409v)
7.28 The war-dog (BN: Ms. Lat. 7239, fo. 61r)
7.29 The Battle of Sluys (BN: Ms. Fr. 2643, fo. 72)
7.30 Widowed Rome (BN: Ms. Ital. 81, fo. 18)
7.31 Florence (BN: Vb, 37 fol.)
23.1 Papal palace at Avignon (Prints Division, New York Public Library)
23.2 Coins (American Numismatic Society)
23.3 A Sienese army (from Aldo Cairola, Il Palazzo Pubblico di Siena, Copyright© 1963 Editalia)
23.4, 23.5. The Swiss campaign (Berner Chronik, facsimile ed., Bern, 1943, vol. 1, pls. 202 and 206, Copyright 1943, Aare Verlag Bern)
23.6 Sir John Hawkwood (Scala/Editorial Photocolor Archives)
23.7 Pierre de Luxemburg (Musée Calvet, Avignon; Photo: Braun)
23.8 Burning of the Jews (Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles: Ms. 13076–77, fo. 12v
23.9 Jew (Cathedral of Tarragona; Photo Mas, Barcelona)
23.10 Christine de Pisan (BN: Ms. Fr. 835, fo. 1)
23.11 Jean de Berry (Archives photographiques, Paris)
23.12 Philip of Burgundy (Photo: Giraudon)
23.13 Charles V receiving Aristotle’s Ethics (Bibliothèque royale, Bruxelles: Ms. 9505–06, fo. 1)
23.14 Pope Urban VI (Photo: Leonard Von Matt, Buochs, Switzerland)
23.15 Clement VII (Photo: Giraudon)
23.16 The siege of Mahdia (BN: Ms. Fr. 2646, fo. 79)
23.17 Louis d’Orléans (Photo: Giraudon)
23.18 The Visconti device (BN: Ms. Lat. 6340, fo. 901v)
23.19 Gian Galeazzo Visconti (The Louvre; Photo: Giraudon)
23.20 Froissart offering his Chronicles to Charles VI (BN: Ms. Fr., nouv. acq., 9604, fo. 1)
23.21 Gerson preaching (Bibliothèque municipale de Valencienne; Photo: Giraudon)
23.22,