xx, 677 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
I am the sire de Coucy: the dynasty --; Born to woe: the century --; Youth and chivalry --; War --; "This is the end of the world": the black death --; The battle of poitiers --; Decapitated France: The Bourgeois rising and the Jacqueline --; Hostage in England --; Enguerrand and Isabella --; Sons of iniquity --; The gilded shroud --; Double allegiance --; Coucy's war --; England's turmoil --; The emperor in Paris --; The papal schism --; Coucy's rise --; The worms of the earth against the lions --; The lure of Italy --; A second Norman conquest --; The fiction cracks --; The siege of Barbary --; In a dark wood --; Danse macabre --; Lost opportunity --; Nicopolis --; Hung be the heavens with black.
The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society.