“Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman , book A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 81

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American historian and author 1912–1989

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