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Barbara Tuchman was an American historian renowned for her in-depth research and vivid narrative style. Her works covered historical events from the Roman Empire to the 20th century, with 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' and 'The Guns of August' being particularly notable.

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“Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.”

Self Church Numbers Dangerous Infidel

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”

Years War Church Periods Hundred Crisis Unity Broke Medieval

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.”

Littles Art Church Century Source Dignity Access Ceremony

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.”

Persons Belief Church Century Jew Antipathy

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.”

Women Church Century Devil Obstacles Holiness Distraction Rivals Temptress

Author:Barbara Tuchman