The Hundred Years War Divided Houses

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266568
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 3 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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ISBN 13 : 9780812242232
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Divided houses written by Jonathan Sumption and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9780571240128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 3 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber Non Fiction. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
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ISBN 13 : 9780571138951
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire written by Jonathan Sumption and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812247992
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 4 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time." 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, Europe's strongest and most populous state, suffered a complete internal collapse. As the warring parties within fought for the spoils of the kingdom under the vacant gaze of the mad King Charles VI, the country was left at the mercy of one of the most remarkable rulers of the European Middle Ages: Henry V of England, who had destroyed the French army on the field of Agincourt in October 1415 and left most of France's leadership dead. Sumption recounts in extraordinary detail the relentless campaign of conquest that brought Henry to the streets and palaces of Paris within just a few years. He died at the age of thirty-six in a French royal castle in 1422, just two months before he would have become king of France. Six centuries later, these extraordinary events are overlaid by the resounding words of Shakespeare and the potent national myths of England and France. In Cursed Kings, Jonathan Sumption strips away the layers to rediscover the personalities and events that lie beneath.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216554
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-09-29 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218015
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812223888
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 4 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9780571274567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 4 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber Non Fiction. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266584
Total Pages : 1221 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 1 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 1221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Compulsively readable' ( History) , this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. It traces the early humiliations and triumphs of Edward III: the campaigns of Sluys, Crecy and Calais, which first made his name as a war leader and the reputation of his subjects as the most brutally effective warriors of their time. Trial by Battle is an account of the events of a pivotal period in both French and British history, from Wolfson History Prize-winning author and historian Jonathan Sumption. 'A new and immensely impressive history of the war.' Daily Telegraph