The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War, 'one of the great historical undertakings of our age' (Dan Jones, Sunday Times). Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War.
Jonathan Sumption Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
9 december 1948
Jonathan Sumption is een Britse historicus en auteur wiens werken zich verdiepen in complexe historische onderwerpen. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt gekenmerkt door diepgang en precisie bij de analyse van gebeurtenissen uit het verleden en hun impact. Sumption streeft naar boeiende verhalen die de lezer onderdompelen in de tijd en context van de beschreven gebeurtenissen. Zijn werken worden gewaardeerd om hun intellectuele bijdrage en hun vermogen om ingewikkelde historische processen te belichten.
Law in a Time of Crisis
- 208bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
An essential examination of the hinterland between the law and politics, judges and politicians.
Hundred Years War Vol 4
- 928bladzijden
- 33 uur lezen
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.
Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and failure.
'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history.
Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.