The Hundred Years War
Subtitle: a people's history
By: David Green
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780300134513
Subjects: Military History; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453; Foreign relations
Other titles: 100 Years War
Description: 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. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction (1337); title: Knight and nobles: Flowers of chivalry (1346); title: The Peasantry:"Vox Populi" (1358); title: The church and the clergy: Voices from the Pulpit (1378); title: Making peace: "Blessed are the Peacemakers" (1396); title: The madness of Kings: Kingship and royal power (1407); title: Soldiers: Views from the front (1415); title: Occupation: Coexistence, collaboration and resistance (1423); title: Women and war: Power and persecution (1429); title: Prisoners of war: Gilded cages (1435); title: National identities: St George and "La Mere France" (1449); title: Conclusion: 1453 and beyond.