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Book Club: A Distant Mirror, the Finale

April 16, 2010 by WendyB

For this post, the fourth and final one on my favorite history book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitious 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, I wish I had a deep-voiced television announcer to say, “Previously on Wendy Brandes Jewelry …” and give a summary of the three preceding posts. Since I don’t have that guy, I’ll…

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Filed Under: book club, books, History, my designs, necklaces, pictures of me Tagged With: a distant mirror

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part III

April 1, 2010 by WendyB

Welcome to Part III of my report on A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. Read Part I and Part II to get yourselves oriented. On Saturday, in my second of a series of posts on the book A Distant Mirror, I listed the disasters of the 1300s. Those included what Tuchman…

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Filed Under: book club, books, gorgeous family, History, pictures of me, travel Tagged With: a distant mirror, barbara tuchman

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part II

March 27, 2010 by WendyB

Today is a day for celebration: it is the one-year-and-one-day procrastination-versary of my introduction to my favorite history book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. On March 26, 2009, I posted about A Distant Mirror and told you to come back the next week for more. I wrote a long and…

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Filed Under: Beatles, book club, books, History, insanity Tagged With: a distant mirror, barbara tuchman, black death

Book Club: Introduction to A Distant Mirror

March 26, 2009 by WendyB

It’s become de rigueur for newspaper columnists, bloggers and people standing around the water cooler to bemoan the decline of civilization as evidenced by what one historian called “economic chaos, social unrest, high prices, profiteering, depraved morals, lack of production, industrial indolence, frenetic gaiety, wild expenditure, luxury, debauchery, social and religious hysteria, greed, avarice, maladministration,…

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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