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5 pages. In this historical narrative of Medieval Europe, the author writes of French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy who ruthlessly made himself wealthy by preying on the unfortunate peasants of the time period. The 14th century was a time of great horrors such as the plague and the Hundred Years war, and the fact that the French nobleman was making himself wealthy and powerful because of other's misfortune is just one more nightmare to add to that time of strife. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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fact that the French nobleman was making himself wealthy and powerful because of others misfortune is just one more nightmare to add to that time of strife. Bibliography lists
1 source. JGAbtuch.rtf A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman Research Compiled for Enterprises Inc. 11/2001
to Use This Paper Properly, INTRODUCTION In this historical narrative of Medieval Europe, the author writes of French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy who ruthlessly made
himself wealthy by preying on the unfortunate peasants of the time period. The 14th century was a time of great horrors such as the plague and the Hundred Years
war, and the fact that the French nobleman was making himself wealthy and powerful because of others misfortune is just one more nightmare to add to that time of strife.
THE NIGHTMARES OF THE 14TH CENTURY Enguerrand de Coucy, a "whole man in a fractured time," (Tuchman PG), lived in a time that saw people suffering from nearly every
misfortune known to man. The Black Death was ravaging the country and would kill more than half of the entire population. The Hundred Years War, along with the
Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. The author tends to go from nightmare to nightmare
in her book, analyzing each terrible tragedy and the ill effect it caused among the people of that time. She explains to the reader how the plagues effectively forced
people apart so that "emotional response, dulled by horrors, underwent a kind of atrophy..." Suggesting that the "relative emotional blankness of a medieval infancy may account for the casual attitude
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