Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 224 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). This is a comparative study of how the societies of late-medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them commonly known as the Hundred Years War. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary views regarding the war. Two chapters follow which describe the military aim of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 301 p. The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly community, and the crown had already begun to exercise tighter control over the practice of war. This led to tensions between public and...
Boydell Press, 2007. — 404 p. — ISBN: 1846153700 On the evening of 26 August 1346, the greatest military power in Christendom, the French royal army with Philip VI at its head, was defeated by an expeditionary force from England under the command of Edward III. A momentous event that sent shock waves across Europe, the battle of Crécy marked a turning point in the English...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 485 p. — ISBN: 9780674065604 For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword — an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that Juliet Barker brings to vivid life in "Conquest".
Worcester: Polytechnic Institute, 2018. — 86 p. This project investigates the development of weaponry during the late medieval period, specifically focusing on the Hundred Years’War, fought between England and France between 1337 and 1453. As a part of this project, we will explore the historical background of this conflict and the changes to army organization, military...
D.S. Brewer, 2016. — 300 p. The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the conflict remains a sticking pointin scholarship of medieval multilingualism and its complex relationship to nationalism, often overlooked in calls for a...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 360 p. Henry V’s stunning victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England's military fortunes and changing forever the course of European warfare. In this exciting and readable account Colonel Burne recreates the years leading up to Agincourt and its bitter aftermath. He also puts the battle in the perspective of the...
Reprint edition. — Frontline Books, 2016. — 368 p. Crecy, the Black Prince's most famous victory, was the first of two major victories during the first part of the Hundred Years War. This was followed ten years later by his second great success at the Battle of Poitiers. The subsequent Treaty of Bretigny established the rights of the King of England to hold his domains in...
Pen and Sword Press, 2014. — 197 p. The overwhelming victory of Henry V's English army at Agincourt in October 1415 has passed into myth - as one of the defining events of the Hundred Years War against France, as a feat of arms outshining the previous famous English victories at Crecy and Poitiers, and as a milestone in English medieval history. This epic story of how an...
Atlantic Books, 2015. — 320 p. In this captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relations. The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 126 p. — ISBN: 0-203-48733-8. There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theaters in which it was fought. In this book, Anne Curry demonstrates how this conflict reveals...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999. - 264 p. The Hundred Years War embraced warfare in all aspects, from the grand set pieces of Crecy and Agincourt to the pillaged lands of the dispossessed population. What makes this book different from previous studies emphasising the great battles is its use of less familiar evidence, such as administrative records and landscape archaeology, to...
History Press, 2015. — 320 p. As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march after the taking of Harfleur and diminished by the dysentery they had suffered there, can little have dreamt that the battle of the next day would give them one of the most complete victories ever won. Anne Curry's startling new...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 256 p. Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. Everybody thinks they know what the battle was about. Even John Lennon, aged 12, wrote a poem and drew a picture headed 'Agincourt'. But why and how has Agincourt come to mean so...
2nd Edition — Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 184 p. — (British History in Perspective). Although the term 'Hundred Years War' was not coined until the 1860s, the Anglo-French conflicts of the later Middle Ages have long been of interest to historians. A fundamental question remains - was this a feudal war fought over ancient English rights in Gascony, or was it a dynastic war in...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. — (Osprey guide to...) There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. In this book, Hundred Years' War expert Dr Anne Curry reveals...
Sutton Publishing, 1999. — 272 p. In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. Heavenly voices, she said, had told her to seek out the Dauphin, Charles, so that he might give her an army with which to deliver France from its English occupiers. The ensuing tale of Joan's military success is told here in a...
Pegasus Books, 2015. — 349 p. Sir Ranulph Fiennes' dynamic account of the Battle of Agincourt gives a unique perspective on one of the most significant battles in English history. On 25th October 1415, on a French hillside near the village of Agincourt, four men sheltered from the rain and prepared for battle. All four were English knights - ancestors of Sir Ranulph Fiennes -...
Greenwood Press, 2005. — 185 p. When in Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France in 1154 A.D., he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of England and half of France — and yet, according to the feudal hierarchy of the times, a vassal to the King of France. This situation, which placed French and English borders...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 360 p. — ISBN: 9780300134513 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...
The History Press, 2009. — 152 p. This is the story of one of the great battles of the Hundred Years War, often ignored in favor of its more celebrated siblings, Crecy and Agincourt. The victory at Poitiers by an English force outnumbered two-to-one as led by Edward the Black Prince was one of the most significant of the Hundred Years War. The consequences of the battle...
The History Press, 2009. — 152 p. This is the story of one of the great battles of the Hundred Years War, often ignored in favor of its more celebrated siblings, Crecy and Agincourt. The victory at Poitiers by an English force outnumbered two-to-one as led by Edward the Black Prince was one of the most significant of the Hundred Years War. The consequences of the battle...
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1947. — 207 p. An account of the relations between England and France during the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, particularly as they influenced the career of Henry V of England, whose life story is interwoven into this account.
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 224 p. The capture of a king in the course of a battle was a relatively rare event. This, the climactic event of the Black Prince's first campaign as commander, came at the end of nearly a year of campaigning across the southwest of France. The battle of Poitiers in 1356 is less well known than more famous clashes such as Agincourt, however,...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 224 p. The capture of a king in the course of a battle was a relatively rare event. This, the climactic event of the Black Prince's first campaign as commander, came at the end of nearly a year of campaigning across the southwest of France. The battle of Poitiers in 1356 is less well known than more famous clashes such as Agincourt, however,...
London — New York: Routledge, 2003. — 310 p. — ISBN: 0-203-41611-2 The Hundred Years War is a lively survey, recreating the vigour of this turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years War was the longest war in European history, a war which brought fundamental change in two medieval societies, and ushered in the Renaissance.The story of the conflict, its...
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1940. — 173 p. The complexities of military administration and organization in 15th century England. Includes notes, sources and bibliography & index. Excellent military history of England during the Hundred Years War.
Les Cahiers du Bazadais", 2014 - № 187 - 72 p. This paper is about the family of Preissac whose elder members where nicknamed Soudan of la Trau. They were issued from a nephew of Pope Clement V and its most famous member has been Anglo-Gascon general Arnaut-Bernat IV de Preissac (d. 1394), who became Knight of the Garter c. 1380-1381. He was also present at the battles of...
Wydawn. Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 2013. — 233 p. Zwięzły - ze względu na znaczną ilość poruszonych wątków - opis Wojny Stuletniej toczonej w XIV i XV wieku pomiędzy Anglią i Francją.
Boydell & Brewer, 1999. — 384 p. When Edward III came to the throne of England in 1327, England's military reputation had reached a low ebb. The young king's first campaign against the Scots was a complete failure, and the next year the `shameful peace' set the seal on Robert Bruce's victory in the First Scottish War of Independence. Twenty-two years later, however, King Jean...
Viking Books, 1988. — 251 p. The British author of The Hundred Years War and other histories, Seward here reveals a Henry V far different from previous studies of the centuries-old royal persona. The glorious hero of Agincourt in Shakespeare's drama has been revered by nearly all chroniclers since the monarch's time (1387-1422) as just, honorable, pious and gentle. Yet Seward's...
Penguin Books, 1999. — 304 p. 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...
Pegasus, 2014. — 304 p. Presenting a radical new look at King Henry V (who ruled in 1413-1422) — as a brilliant and brutal warmonger — this dynamic historical narrative will change our modern attitudes toward this warrior king. In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between France and...
Faber and Faber, 2010. — 618 p. — ISBN: 978–0–571–26658–6 Jonathan Sumption is a former History Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a practicing QC. He is the author of "Pilgrimage" and "The Albigensian Crusade", as well as the first three volumes in his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War - "Trial by Battle", "Trial by Fire" and "Divided Houses". He was awarded the...
Faber and Faber, 2001. — 680 p. — ISBN: 9780571207375. This second volume on the Hundred Years War traces Edward III's increasing domination of France, from the fall of Calais in 1347 up to 1369. The period is dominated by a succession of crises in French affairs of state; crises that brought it to the verge of ruin. The catastrophic defeat at Poitiers - at the hands of...
Faber and Faber, 2000. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9780571138975 "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...
Faber & Faber, 2015. — 928 p. 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, Europe's strongest and most populous state, suffered a complete internal collapse. As the warring parties within fought for the spoils of the kingdom under the vacant gaze of the mad...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 928 p. 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, Europe's strongest and most populous state, suffered a complete internal collapse. As the warring parties within fought for the spoils of the kingdom under the...
Faber & Faber, 1999. — 672 p. This text is the first volume in a series that details the endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state. 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 campaigns of Sluys, Crecy and Calais. A former history fellow of Magdalen...
Faber & Faber, 2009. — 672 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 345 p. Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and...
Brill, 2017. — 650 p. In To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle: Nájera (April 3, 1367). A Pyrrhic Victory for the Black Prince , L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay provide a full treatment of one of the major battles of the Hundred Years War, which, perhaps because it was fought in Spain, is lesser known to scholars and general readers. Drawing information from contemporary...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 578 p. — ISBN: 9004139699 This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence of the conflict on Italy, the Low Countries,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — xxxii + 477 p. — ISBN: 9789004168213 This book takes a fresh look at the Hundred Years War by gathering the latest scholarship on several aspects of the conflict that have not been amply studied before and several that have become "gospel" by numerous scholarly treatments. The collection focuses on the following subjects: the Hundred Years War...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — xxii+564 p. — ISBN: 9789004245648 In this work, the third volume of essays dealing with many understudied aspects of the Hundred Years War, American, British, and European scholars deal with the varied sources that reveal the lives of soldiers in the conflict as well as the development of strategy and generalship in the many theaters of the...
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