Question
Ronald Takaki alluded to this book in the title of his "history of multicultural America." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book that follows the life of Enguerrand de Coucy as a vehicle to explain the late Middle Ages, concluding with his death at the Battle of Nicopolis.
ANSWER: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (The Ronald Takaki book is A Different Mirror.)
[10m] This author titled A Distant Mirror to reflect parallels in 20th century history. This author also covered the start of World War I in The Guns of August.
ANSWER: Barbara Tuchman
[10e] This event is the main calamity described in A Distant Mirror. The origins of this event are still contested, with rats and marmots both plausible vectors for Yersinia pestis.
ANSWER: Black Death [or Black Plague; accept bubonic plague; prompt on plague]
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