| Description |
xx, 677 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-617) and index. |
| Summary |
The author traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at different 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 Jacquerie ; 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 |
Coucy, Enguerrand de, 1340-1397.
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France -- History -- 14th century.
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Nobility -- France -- Biography.
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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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0345295420 |
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9780345295422 |
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