
A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
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Narrated by:
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Aviva Skell
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By:
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Barbara Tuchman
The Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed one third of all human beings in Europe and Western Asia; many who survived the plague killed each other in the Hundred Years War that followed. What was it like to live in this calamitous century, when knighthood (and much more) died a violent death? Find out.
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Masterful Portrait of a Tragic Era
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Please, please authors, put your ego aside and pay someone to read your books!
I gave up. Ruined by the reader. Argh!
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Overall, despite the interesting first 6 chapters, probably not worth the time unless you are already an expert on the Hundred Years' War, speak French, and already have thorough background knowledge of French medieval history. Not for the novice. However! The reader is a greater narrator and has that wonderful old school, ambiguous North Atlantic accent.
Difficult to Follow, untranslated French, many dates and names
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beautiful writing
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I learned a lot of medieval history from “A Distant Mirror,” and what I learned did not offer hope. Royalty was often incompetent; the nobles were selfish and brutal, the peasants bigoted. Even a relatively decent and pragmatic man, like the central figure the Lord of Coucy, was capable of cruelty.
The book is very long. Too much was about battles I had never heard of, royal alliances that don’t matter today and nobles whose names are long forgotten. My mind often wandered as I listened, like, what’s for dinner tonight?
The narrator was clear, and her pronunciations of foreign names and words sounded right, but she read too quickly. That kept the book moving, but it made it more difficult to grasp who was doing what to whom.
Plague and Pillage, Bullies and Brigands
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so much information
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History lives!
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I only wish there was a way to zero in on some historical time frame and listen bit by bit. But in the audio format it's only numerically labled.. all 70 plus of them.
Again, a great story, but you need a lot of patience listen day after day.
Long, Long, and Long
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Tedious
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Great historical narrative
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