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Sumption's huge, masterly and utterly complete history of the Hundred Years' War ... is one of the great historical undertakings of our age, and Cursed Kings might be its best volume yet. Its value, as ever, is in its breadth, perspective and absolute freedom from the jaundice of propaganda.
The years narrated are 1400-22. This coincides almost exactly with Henry V's time in power, first as a young Prince of Wales and subsequently as king. But the viewpoint here is largely French. Rightly so, for in truth the critical factor in England's remarkable success during this phase of the Hundred Years' War was not Henry's extraordinary capability as a warrior king but the dreadful schism that persisted in French politics in the early 15th century owing to the madness of Charles VI. The violent struggle between the factions of royal dukes known as Burgundians and Armagnacs opened a crack, and Henry V smashed his way through
Over the 923 pages of this book Sumption keeps that bloody French feud equally in focus with Henry's campaigns. The result is deep historical verisimilitude ... The book closes with the deaths of Charles VI and Henry V, within weeks of one another in 1422. Sumption's final volume will take the war to its close, with the English obliterated and expelled from France in 1453, an event that cast England into its own Burgundian-Armagnac- style feud, better known as the Wars of the Roses. It cannot come too soon.
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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, 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. It had never happened before in the country's history - and it would not happen again until 1940.Into the void left by this domestic catastrophe, strode one of the most remarkable rulers of the age, Henry V of England, the victor of Agincourt, who conquered much of northern France before dying at the age of thirty-six, just two months before he would have become King of France.Following on from Divided Houses (winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Hessel-Tiltman), Cursed Kings is the magisterial new chapter in 'one of the great historical works of our time' (Allan Massie). The hugely acclaimed fourth volume in Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780571274567
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