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.
Hundred Years War Vol 4
Title | Hundred Years War Vol 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | Faber & Faber Non Fiction |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-07-07 |
Genre | British |
ISBN | 9780571274567 |
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).
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 | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | British |
ISBN | 9780571274543 |
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.
The Hundred Years War, Volume 2
Title | The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 706 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812218015 |
Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.
Hundred Years War Vol 4
Title | Hundred Years War Vol 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 723 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
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.
The Hundred Years War: Divided houses
Title | The Hundred Years War: Divided houses PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 |
ISBN | 9780812242232 |