Originally Posted By: Ken61
Ah, as far as Tuchman, I highly recommend "A Distant Mirror". It's a great perspective on not only European nobility, but on other things like the Catholic Rome-Avignon schism, Ottoman expansion into Europe, and the Black Death as well.

Regards
Ken


She is a lot easier read and a more fluent writer than most of the others. Sir Charles Oman and Zoe Oldenbourg are also excellent.

Marc Bloch is acknowledged as the foremost authority on the Middle Ages but he is brutal to read. Like reading a technical journal.