The Hundred Years War, Volume 1
Title | The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 676 |
Release | 1999-09-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812216554 |
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.
The Hundred Years War
Title | The Hundred Years War PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 1034 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | France |
ISBN | 9780812242232 |
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 French ones.
Hundred Years War Vol 3
Title | Hundred Years War Vol 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | 1026 |
Release | 2011-06-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0571266568 |
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.
The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire
Title | The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | France |
ISBN | 9780571138951 |
Hundred Years War Vol 3
Title | Hundred Years War Vol 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | Faber & Faber Non Fiction |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Genre | France |
ISBN | 9780571240128 |
The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.
The Hundred Years War
Title | The Hundred Years War PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Neillands |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415261319 |
A lively survey that re-creates the story of the Hundred Years War - the longest war in European history.
The Hundred Years War, Volume 4
Title | The Hundred Years War, Volume 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 928 |
Release | 2017-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812223888 |
The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.