I was reading A Distant Mirror, chapter seven.

"A Distant Mirror," I said.

But six years went by before the appearance of her next work, "A Distant Mirror," a study of the 14th century, an era that was racked by plague and war.

"A Distant Mirror" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1978): The 14th century.

Tuchman, Barbara W (1978) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.

Barbara Tuchman describes this as a peasant uprising in A Distant Mirror.

"Distant Mirrors," sculptures by Terry Adkins.

The book contains four tales under the banner of "Distant Mirrors", which are about emperors and the nature of power.

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman (1978)