Although my initial question has escaped an answer, the interest of the period itself- a violent, tormented, bewildered, suffering and disintegrating age, a time, as many thought, of Satan triumphant- was compelling, as it seemed to me, consoling in a period of similar disarray. If our last decade or two of collapsing assumptions has been a period of unusual discomfort, it is reassuring to know that the human species has lived through worse before.
( Barbara W. Tuchman )
[ A Distant Mirror: The ]
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