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.“[Hundred Years War] makes us care about this long-ago conflict
and the society that pursued and was shaped by it. . . . [It is]
likely to (and indeed should) become a standard introduction to the
war.”—Charles F. Briggs, Speculum
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ISBN
9780300209945
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Yale University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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