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Book Synopsis A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England by : Gordon Corrigan
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.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire by : Jonathan Sumption
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:
Book Synopsis Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War by : Rémy Ambühl
Download or read book Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War written by Rémy Ambühl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly community, and the crown had already begun to exercise tighter control over the practice of war. This led to tensions between public and private interests over ransoms and prisoners of war. Historians have long emphasised the significance of the French and English crowns' interference in the issue of prisoners of war, but this original and stimulating study questions whether they have been too influenced by the state-centred nature of most surviving sources. Based on extensive archival research, this book tests customs, laws and theory against the individual experiences of captors and prisoners during the Hundred Years War, to evoke their world in all its complexity.
Book Synopsis A Brief History of the Hundred Years War by : Desmond Seward
Download or read book A Brief History of the Hundred Years War written by Desmond Seward and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles - including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to fail, and in four short years she lost Normandy and finally her last stronghold in Guyenne. The protagonists of the Hundred Year War are among the most colourful in European history: for the English, Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V, later immortalized by Shakespeare; for the French, the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London, Charles V, who very nearly overcame England and the enigmatic Charles VII, who did at last drive the English out.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War by : David Green
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.
Book Synopsis Hundred Years War Vol 3 by : Jonathan Sumption
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.
Book Synopsis Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War by : Philip J. Caudrey
Download or read book Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War written by Philip J. Caudrey and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society.
Book Synopsis Hundred Years War Vol 4 by : Jonathan Sumption
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).
Book Synopsis The Four Hundred Years War (1066-1453) by : Jonathan Smalley
Download or read book The Four Hundred Years War (1066-1453) written by Jonathan Smalley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 by : Jonathan Sumption
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.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War by : L. J. Andrew Villalon
Download or read book The Hundred Years War written by L. J. Andrew Villalon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War by : Robin Neillands
Download or read book The Hundred Years War written by Robin Neillands and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hundred Years War was the longest war in European history, a quarrel between two cousins resulting in decades of violence in the battle for the French throne. It was a war which wrought great change in two medieval societies, ushering in the Renaissance and having repurcussions down to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 by : Jonathan Sumption
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.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War, Volume 4 by : Jonathan Sumption
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.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War (part II) by : L. J. Andrew Villalon
Download or read book The Hundred Years War (part II) written by L. J. Andrew Villalon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen articles, this volume affirms that the Hundred Years War was a struggle that spilled out of its heartlands of England and France into many European regions. These a oedifferent vistasa of scholarship greatly amply the study of the conflict.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War by : Anne Curry
Download or read book The Hundred Years War written by Anne Curry and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the term "Hundred Years War" was not coined until the 1860s, the Anglo-French conflicts of the later Middle Ages have long been of interest to historians. This book explores the trends in historical opinion from the time of the wars to the present day. It provides a narrative of English involvement in France, placing the well known military events in their diplomatic context. By focusing on the treaties of 1259, 1360 and 1420, Anne Curry suggests that there was not one "hundred year war" but rather three separate yet linked conflicts, all with significant implications for the European scene as a whole. --From publisher's description.
Book Synopsis A Short History of the Hundred Years War by : Michael Prestwich
Download or read book A Short History of the Hundred Years War written by Michael Prestwich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In his vivid new history, Michael Prestwich shows that it likewise involved large and charismatic individuals: Edward III, claimant to the French throne; his son Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; wily architect of the first French victories, Bertrand du Guesclin; chivalric hero Jean Boucicaut; inspirational leader Henry V, unlikely winner at Agincourt (1415), who so nearly succeeded in becoming King of France; and the martyred Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc, thought to be divinely inspired. Offering an up-to-date analysis of military organization, strategy and tactics, including the deadly power of English archery, the author explains the wider politics in a masterful account of the War as a whole: from English victory at Sluys (1340) to the turn of the tide and French revival as the invader was driven back across the Channel.
