| Description |
xx, 677 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-617) and index. |
| Summary |
The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society. |
| Contents |
"I am the sire de Coucy": the dynasty -- Born to woe: the century -- Youth and chivalry -- War -- "This is the end of the world": the black death -- The battle of poitiers -- Decapitated France: The Bourgeois rising and the Jacqueline -- Hostage in England -- Enguerrand and Isabella -- Sons of iniquity -- The gilded shroud -- Double allegiance -- Coucy's war -- England's turmoil -- The emperor in Paris -- The papal schism -- Coucy's rise -- The worms of the earth against the lions -- The lure of Italy -- A second Norman conquest -- The fiction cracks -- The siege of Barbary -- In a dark wood -- Danse macabre -- Lost opportunity -- Nicopolis -- Hung be the heavens with black. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- 14th century.
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Coucy, Enguerrand de, 1340-1397.
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Nobility -- France -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0345283945 |
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9780345283948 |
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9780345349576 |
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0345349571 |
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0345301455 |
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9780345301451 |
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