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Start Date for Spotlighted Discussion is June 20, 2011.
Week One - June 20th – June 26th -> Foreward and PART ONE - Chapters ONE and TWO p. xiii - 48
Foreward and ONE – “I Am the Sire de Coucy”: The Dynasty and TWO – Born To Woe: The Century
Week Two - June 27th – July 3rd -> Chapter THREE p. 49 - 69
THREE – Youth and Chivalry
Week Three - July 4th – July 10th -> Chapter FOUR p. 70 - 91
FOUR – War
Week Four - July 11th – July 17th -> Chapter FIVE p. 92 - 125
FIVE – “This Is the End of the World”: The Black Death
Week Five - July 18th - July 24th -> Chapter SIX p. 126 - 154
SIX – The Battle of Poitiers
Week Six - July 25th - July 31st -> Chapters SEVEN and EIGHT p 155 - 203
SEVEN – Decapitated France: The Bourgeois Rising and the Jacquerie and EIGHT – Hostage in England
Week Seven - August 1st – August 7th -> Chapters NINE , TEN and ELEVEN
p. 204 - 245
NINE – Enguerrand and Isabella and TEN – Sons of Iniquity and ELEVEN – The Gilded Shroud
Week Eight - August 8th – August 14th -> Chapters TWELVE and THIRTEEN p. 246 - 283
TWELVE – Double Allegiance and THIRTEEN – Coucy’s War
Week Nine - August 15th – August 21st -> Chapters FOURTEEN and FIFTEEN p. 284 - 319
FOURTEEN – England’s Turmoil and FIFTEEN- The Emperor in Paris
Week Ten - August 22nd – August 28th -> Chapters SIXTEEN and PART TWO – SEVENTEEN p. 320 – 364
SIXTEEN – The Papal Schism and PART TWO – SEVENTEEN – Coucy’s Rise
Week Eleven - August 29th – September 4th -> Chapters EIGHTEEN, p. 365 – 397
EIGHTEEN – The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions
Week Twelve - September 5th – September 11th -> Chapters NINETEEN and TWENTY p. 398 - 437
NINETEEN – The Lure of Italy and TWENTY – A Second Norman Conquest
Week Thirteen - September 12th – September 18th -> TWENTY-ONE and TWENTY-TWO p. 438 - 477
TWENTY-ONE – The Fiction Cracks and TWENTY-TWO – The Siege of Barbary
Week Fourteen - September 19th – September 25th -> TWENTY-THREE and TWENTY-FOUR p. 478 - 516
TWENTY-THREE – In a Dark Wood and TWENTY-FOUR – Dance Macabre
Week Fifteen - September 26th – October 2nd -> TWENTY-FIVE p. 517 - 537
TWENTY-FIVE – Lost Opportunity
Week Sixteen - October 3rd - October 16th -> TWENTY-SIX p. 538 - 563
TWENTY-SIX – Nicopolis
Week Seventeen - October 17th - October 23rd -> TWENTY-SEVEN and EPILOGUE p. 564 - 598
TWENTY-SEVEN – Hung Be The Heavens with Black and EPILOGUE
Week Eighteen - OCTOBER 24th – October 30th -> Final Thoughts - Book as a Whole and INDEX
This book begins its discussion on June 20, 2011.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Table of Contents:
Maps and Illustrations: ix
There are five maps identified on ix and these maps appear on pages b-I through pages 679
There are 9 color plate illustrations and sixty-one black and white plates (illustrations) which are listed and identified on pages ix, x and xi.
Foreword: xiii
Part One
1. “I Am the Sire de Coucy”: The Dynasty p 3
2. Born to Woe: The Century p 24
3. Youth and Chivalry p 49
4. War p 70
5. “This Is the End of the World”: The Black Death p 92
6. The Battle of Poitiers p 126
7. Decapitated France:
The Bourgeois Rising and the Jacquerie p 155
8. Hostage in England p 185
9. Enguerrand and Isabella p 204
10. Sons of Iniquity p 222
11. The Gilded Shroud p 232
12. Double Allegiance p 246
13. Coucy’s War p 269
14. England’s Turmoil p 284
15. The Emperor in Paris p 306
16. The Papal Schism p 320
Part Two
17. Coucy’s Rise p 343
18. The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions p 365
19. The Lure of Italy p 398
20. A Second Norman Conquest p 416
21. The Fiction Cracks p 438
22. The Siege of Barbary p 458
23. In a Dark Wood p 478
24. Danse Macabre p 494
25. Lost Opportunity p 517
26. Nicopolis p 538
27. Hung Be the Heavens with Black p 564
Epilogue p 582
Bibliography p 599
Reference Notes p 619
Index p 655