A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred by Gordon Corrigan
By Gordon Corrigan
The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years battle is published in a brand new historic narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc to clean and brilliant life
In this appealing new heritage of a clash that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan unearths the horrors of conflict and the machinations of energy that experience formed a millennium of Anglo-French relations.
The Hundred Years conflict was once fought among 1337 and 1453 over English claims to either the throne of France via correct of inheritance and massive components of the rustic that have been at one time Norman or, later, English. The battling ebbed and flowed, yet regardless of their greater strategies and nice victories at Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, the English might by no means desire to safe their claims in perpetuity: France was once wealthier and much extra populous, and whereas the English received the battles, they can no longer desire to carry without end the lands they conquered.
Military historian Gordon Corrigan's gripping narrative of those epochal occasions in combative and refreshingly alive, and the nice battles and personalities of the interval - Edward III, The Black Prince, Henry V, and Joan of Arc between them - obtain the complete awareness and reassessment they deserve.
Read or Download A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England PDF
Similar england books
Timothy Darvill examines the improvement of human societies in Britain from the earliest occasions all the way down to the Roman Conquest, as printed through to be had archaeological facts. precise consciousness is given to 6 issues that are traced via all levels of prehistory: subsistence, expertise, ritual, exchange, society and inhabitants. -Тимоти Дарвилл исследует развитие общества в Британии с самых ранних времен вплоть до римского Завоевания, исходя из археологических исследований. Особое внимание уделено шести темам, которые прослежены через все фазы предыстории: пропитание, технологии, ритуалы, торговля, общество и население. -Опубликовано на торрентс от группы --
Contents/Содержание:
Примеры страниц:
Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707
The making of the uk in 1707 remains to be an issue of vital political and historic controversy. Allan Macinnes the following bargains a tremendous new interpretation that units the Act of Union inside of a huge eu and colonial context and offers a accomplished photo of its transatlantic and transoceanic ramifications that ranged from the stability of strength to the stability of exchange.
A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England
This publication offers with the concept of William Harrison, a widely known Elizabethan highbrow, whose principles are major mainly simply because they can be consultant of the thoroughgoing Protestantism which tailored continental reformed principles to the conditions of Tudor England. The ebook explains how the mentality of Harrison, a university-trained Protestant, unearths a coherent worldview dependent upon a selected view of historical past which he utilized to many parts of latest problem: the full reformation of the church, the advance of society, the elimination of monetary injustice, the reorientation of useful existence and the restraint of the harmful hypothesis present in ordinary philosophy.
The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture
In sixteenth-century England Robert Devereux, 2d earl of Essex, loved nice family and foreign renown as a favorite of Elizabeth I. He was once a soldier and a statesman of incredibly robust ambition. After his disastrous rebellion in 1601 Essex fell from the heights of popularity and favour, and ended his lifestyles as a traitor at the scaffold.
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation
- Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865
- English Philosophy in the Age of Locke
- Dark History of the Tudors Murder, Adultery, Incest, Witchcraft, Wars, Religious Persection, Piracy
- The London Underground Serial Killer
Additional resources for A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England
Example text
One can, of course, twist statistics to suit one’s purpose, but the alliances with France in both the Crimean War and the First World War, pre-Vichy France’s brief participation in the Second World War, de Gaulle’s Free French activities, and more recent French participation in NATO operations are very much the exception, and many old soldiers cannot forget that the armed forces of Vichy France fought British troops in the Middle East, Madagascar and North Africa between 1940 and 1943. The relationship between the Common Agricultural Policy and Crécy is not as distant as might appear, and some of the effects of that centuries-old enmity are with us still: when president of France, General Charles de Gaulle had a standing order that while travelling around the country he was never to be within thirty kilometres of Agincourt.
Although he inherited his father’s commanding height and good looks and was a competent horseman, he had little interest in the other knightly virtues and corrupted the system of royal patronage. This latter depended for its success on the wide and reasonably fair distribution of land, offices and titles, thus retaining the loyalty of those who mattered, but Edward neglected the magnates who expected to be preferred and instead lavished favours and lands on his successive catamites. Homosexuality was then a sin in the eyes of the church – it was equated with heresy – and generally regarded with horror by the laity.
Although he inherited his father’s commanding height and good looks and was a competent horseman, he had little interest in the other knightly virtues and corrupted the system of royal patronage. This latter depended for its success on the wide and reasonably fair distribution of land, offices and titles, thus retaining the loyalty of those who mattered, but Edward neglected the magnates who expected to be preferred and instead lavished favours and lands on his successive catamites. Homosexuality was then a sin in the eyes of the church – it was equated with heresy – and generally regarded with horror by the laity.