Cursed Kings - Hundred Years War

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Sumption is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade , as well as his celebrated five-volume history of the Hundred Years War - Trial by Battle , Trial by Fire , Divided Houses , Cursed Kings and Triumph and Illusion . He was awarded the 2023 Franco-British Society Literary Award for Triumph and Illusion and the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for Divided Houses . Klappentext 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. This book tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family.The hugely acclaimed fourth volume in Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War. Zusammenfassung 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. This book tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Sumption, Sumption Jonathan
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780571274567
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27456-7
• No. of pages: 928
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, European history: medieval period, middle ages, France: Historical & cultural regions, The Plantagenet & medieval period (1154–1485), c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period), France: Historical and cultural regions