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Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : France
ISBN : 0571240127
The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571266562
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 : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216555
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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : France
ISBN : 0571138950
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
ISBN : 0812242238
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571266586
'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 : Faber & Faber
Page : 1263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571266593
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 : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : British
ISBN : 0571274560
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).
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0812235274
"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 : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101173770
From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; 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 at last drove the English out. Desmond Seward's critically-acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812223880
The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571266579
In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful. Jonathan Sumption's acclaimed history examines the roots of the heresy, the uniquely rich culture of the region which nurtured it, and the crusade launched against it by the Church which resulted in one of the most savage of all medieval wars. '[Sumption] never fails to keep his narrative lively with the particular and the pertinent. He is excellent on the tactics and spirit of medieval warfare.' Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times
Author : L. J. Andrew Villalon,Donald J. Kagay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004139695
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.
Author : David Green
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300134513
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.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218019
Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.