Download e-book for iPad: The Hundred Years War: A People's History by David Green

By David Green

ISBN-10: 0300134517

ISBN-13: 9780300134513

ISBN-10: 0300216106

ISBN-13: 9780300216103

The Hundred Years battle (1337–1453) ruled lifestyles in England and France for good over a century. It turned the defining characteristic of life for generations. This sweeping publication is the 1st to inform the human tale of the longest army clash in historical past. Historian David eco-friendly makes a speciality of the methods the conflict affected diverse teams, between them knights, clerics, ladies, peasants, infantrymen, peacemakers, and kings. He additionally explores how the lengthy struggle altered governance in England and France and reshaped peoples’ perceptions of themselves and in their nationwide character.
 
Using the occasions of the warfare as a story thread, eco-friendly illuminates the realities of conflict and the stipulations of these forced to reside in occupied territory; the jobs performed via clergy and their moving loyalties to king and pope; and the impression of the battle on constructing notions of presidency, literacy, and schooling. Peopled with vibrant and famous characters—Henry V, Joan of Arc, Philippe the nice of Burgundy, Edward the Black Prince, John the Blind of Bohemia, and plenty of others—as good as a number of standard people who have been drawn into the fight, this soaking up e-book unearths for the 1st time not just the Hundred Years War’s impression on struggle, associations, and countries, but in addition its real human cost.

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