A distant mirror the calamitous 14th century Barbara W. Tuchman

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Part one : I0am 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 papel schism. -- Part two : 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 darl wood. -- Danse macabre. -- Lost opportunity. -- Nicopolis. -- Hung be the heavens with black

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