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Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 1990
Genre : Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
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Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War: Divided houses by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Divided houses written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 2011-06-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Hundred Years War Vol 3 by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 3 written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 2011-06-02. 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
Release : 1999-09-29
Genre : History
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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. This book was released on 1999-09-29. 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
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : History
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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. This book was released on 2017-03-28. 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
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)
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. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family were followed by the defeat and capture of the King of France by the Black Prince at Poitiers. A peasant revolt and a violent revolution in Paris completed the tragedy ... Yet the theme of the volume is not destruction, but survival. France's great cities, provincial towns, and rural communities resisted where its leaders failed. They withstood the sustained savagery of the soldiers and the free companies of brigands to undo most of Edward III's work in the following generation. England's triumphs proved to be brittle and short-lived"--Jacket.
