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Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9780812218015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999-09-29
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780812216554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 1263
ISBN-13: 0571266592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: L. J. Andrew Villalon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9004168214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 928
ISBN-13: 0812223888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-05-05
Total Pages: 1221
ISBN-13: 0571266584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'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:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780812235272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 1026
ISBN-13: 0571266568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780812242232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Sumption
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Published: 2016-07-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571274567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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).
