“Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, “no epoch was more naturally mad.””

—  Barbara W. Tuchman, book A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 332

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American historian and author 1912–1989

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