The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.

Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, F

What history records as the Hundred Years War was in fact a succession of destructive conflicts, separated by tense intervals of truce and dishonest and imperma

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid t

A comparative study of how the societies of late medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them from political, military, socia