The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780571138951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780571138951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571240128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 1026
ISBN-13: 0571266568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow into a neurotic and unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history, years of power and ceremony, astonishing artistic creativity and famous warriors making their reputations as far afield as Naples, Hungary and North Africa. Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and failure. At a distance of six centuries, as Jonathan Sumption skilfully and meticulously shows, it is possible to agree with all of these judgments.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999-09-29
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780812216554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What history records as the Hundred Years War was in fact a succession of destructive conflicts, separated by tense intervals of truce and dishonest and impermanent peace treaties, and one of the central events in the history of England and France. It laid the foundations of France's national consciousness, even while destroying the prosperity and political preeminence which France had once enjoyed. It formed the nation's institutions, creating the germ of the absolute state of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In England, it brought intense effort and suffering, a powerful tide of patriotism, great fortune succeeded by bankruptcy, disintegration, and utter defeat. The war also brought turmoil and ruin to neighboring Scotland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780812242232
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 1263
ISBN-13: 0571266592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9780812218015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Published: 2016-07-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571274567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. It had never happened before in the country's history - and it would not happen again until 1940. Into the void left by this domestic catastrophe, strode one of the most remarkable rulers of the age, Henry V of England, the victor of Agincourt, who conquered much of northern France before dying at the age of thirty-six, just two months before he would have become King of France. Following on from Divided Houses (winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Hessel-Tiltman), Cursed Kings is the magisterial new chapter in 'one of the great historical works of our time' (Allan Massie).
Author: L. J. Andrew Villalon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9004139699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work, the first of a two-volume set, brings together essays of European and American scholars on the wider regional and topical aspects of the Hundred Years War as well as articles that revisit questions posed and supposedly "solved" by traditional Hundred Years War scholarship.
Author: David Green
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0300134517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among them knights, clerics, women, peasants, soldiers, peacemakers, and kings. He also explores how the long war altered governance in England and France and reshaped peoples' perceptions of themselves and of their national character. Using the events of the war as a narrative thread, Green illuminates the realities of battle and the conditions of those compelled to live in occupied territory; the roles played by clergy and their shifting loyalties to king and pope; and the influence of the war on developing notions of government, literacy, and education. Peopled with vivid and well-known characters--Henry V, Joan of Arc, Philippe the Good of Burgundy, Edward the Black Prince, John the Blind of Bohemia, and many others--as well as a host of ordinary individuals who were drawn into the struggle, this absorbing book reveals for the first time not only the Hundred Years War's impact on warfare, institutions, and nations, but also its true human cost.