The Hundred Years War : A People's History / David Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, David, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.

France--History, Military--1328-1589.

France.

Great Britain--History, Military--1066-1485.

Great Britain.

France--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

2014.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chronology

Illustrations

Glossary

A Note on Money

A Note on Names

Introduction (1337)

1. Knights and Nobles: Flowers of Chivalry (1346)

2. The Peasantry: Vox Populi (1358)

3. The Church and the Clergy: Voices from the Pulpit (1378)

4. Making Peace: Blessed are the Peacemakers (1396)

5. The Madness of Kings: Kingship and Royal Power (1407)

6. Soldiers: Views from the Front (1415)

7. Occupation: Coexistence, Collaboration and Resistance (1423)

8. Women and War: Power and Persecution (1429)

9. Prisoners of War: Gilded Cages (1435)

10. National Identities: St George and La Mère France (1449)

Conclusion: 1453 and Beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780300209945

0300209940

OCLC:

892911169