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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
The contemporary conversation around medieval suffering has probably progressed past this book. Regardless- I liked it a lot because I love popes and anti popes and plague and crusades. "France" is the main terrain and I like my content slightly less France focused, but I understand the necessity of that decision. It took a while for me to trust why Enguerrand VII de Coucy was the right choice to tell the story of fourteenth century Europe, but with his lineage and downfall in one of the many failed crusades actually tells a demonstrative narrative. Dense and overly thorough at times but if you're willing to read a book about medieval Europe and you aren't comfortable with that I don't know what to tell you.