General Information

Author/Creator

Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Ballantine Books, 1978.

Physical Description

xi, 677 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Coucy, Enguerrand de, 1340-1397.

Nobility > France > History > To 1500.

Nobility > France > Biography.

France > History > 14th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Barbara W. Tuchman.

Note

Includes bibliography (p. [599]-617) and index (p. [655]-677).

Content

1. "I am the Sire de Coucy": the dynasty -- 2. Born to woe: the century -- 3. Youth and chivalry -- 4. War -- 5. "This is the end of the world": the black death -- 6. The battle of Poitiers -- 7. Decapitated France: the Bourgeois rising and the Jacquerie -- 8. Hostage in England -- 9. Enguerrand and Isabella -- 10. Sons of Iniquity -- 11. The gilded shroud -- 12. Double allegiance -- 13. Coucy's war -- 14. England's turmoil -- 15. The emperor in Paris -- 16. The papal schism -- 17. Councy's rise -- 18. The worms of earth against the lions -- 19. The lure of Italy -- 20. A second Norman conquest -- 21. The fiction cracks -- 22. The siege of barbary -- 23. In a dark wood -- 24. Danse macabre -- 25. Lost opportunity -- 26. Nicopolis -- 27. Hung be the heavens with black -- Epilogue.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0345283945

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	944/.02 TUC		OSA Repository	-

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