The Hundred Years War Volume 1

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 : 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

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher :
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 : C. T. Allmand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521319232
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War written by C. T. Allmand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-02-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of how the societies of late medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them from political, military, social and economic perspectives.

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 : David Green
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134517
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War written by David Green and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812221770
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 3 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national identities of both England and France into the modern era. The first twenty years of the war were positive for the English, by any account. They already held the South of France, through Eleanor of Aquitaine's dowry, and were allied with the Flemish in the north. After the brilliant naval battle of Sluys, the English had control of both the English Channel and the North Sea. The battles of Crécy and Poitiers gave the English a powerful toehold on the continent; they even captured the French king, Philip, occasioning a peace treaty in 1360. This long-awaited third volume of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the war narrates the period from 1369 to 1393, a span marked by the slow decline of English fortunes and the subsequent rise of the French. The English were condemned to see the conquests of the previous thirty years overrun by the armies of the king of France in less than ten. Edward III was succeeded by a vulnerable child, destined to grow into a neurotic and unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. England's citizenry was being asked to pay for a long and expensive war, soldiers were becoming disenchanted, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 evidenced the social unrest in the land. However, France too paid a heavy price for her success. Beneath the surface splendor the French government sat poised at the edge of bankruptcy and the population subsisted in fear and insecurity. The inexperience of Charles VI and his gradual relapse into insanity divided the French political world, as the king's relatives competed for the plunder of the state, sowing the seeds of disintegration and civil war in the following century. Marshaling a wide range of contemporary sources, both printed and manuscript, French and English, Sumption recounts the events of this critical period of the Hundred Years War in unprecedented detail.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266592
Total Pages : 1263 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 2 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 1263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605986054
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England written by Gordon Corrigan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years War is revealed in a new historical narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc to fresh and vivid life In this captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relations. The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The fighting ebbed and flowed, but despite their superior tactics and great victories at Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, the English could never hope to secure their claims in perpetuity: France was wealthier and far more populous, and while the English won the battles, they could not hope to hold forever the lands they conquered. Military historian Gordon Corrigan's gripping narrative of these epochal events is combative and refreshingly alive, and the great battles and personalities of the period - Edward III, The Black Prince, Henry V, and Joan of Arc among them - receive the full attention and reassessment they deserve.

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.