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. 9780812216554. Consider changing the search query. Please try again. Please try again. Jonathan Sumption | Faber on the Internet. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Most ofthe time, the two kingdoms mutualwarfare was as ludicrous andineffective as a couple of elderly drunks fighting in a pub car park. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped by Amazon, history, with plenty of crazed kings, martial heroes, dastardly betrayals, silky clerical types and prisoners rotting in foul dungeons. About the Author A former history fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Jonathan Sumption is the author of The Hundred Years War, Volume 1: Trial by Battle, The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses, and The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Select the Pickup option on the product page or during checkout. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hundred Years War Vol 4: Cursed Kings by Sumption, Jonathan at the best online prices at eBay! Read 20 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. He hasan enviable command of original sources, and an excellent sense ofplace, very necessary when his geographical canvas extends from Perth to the Pyrenees. "New York Review of Books, "A superb narrative history. Not content that his father had usurped theEnglish throne, Henrys distinctive brand of self-righteousness impelled him to try an even greater usurpation and create a dual monarchy spanning the Channel. Itwas only by dynastic arguments thatHenryV could justify his chutzpah in seeking to be heir to the French throne (apart from dealing out that perennial medieval joker in the pack, the will of God). Touchingly, conscientious nuns were still doing this when Henry VIII dissolved their convents generations later. , ISBN-10 All this is well told, and despite its length this volume and its successors are both readable and intelligible. Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, 1066-1485 (Medieval Period) - British History, 1328 - 1589 (Valois Dynasty) - French History, Copperhead (Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles #2), The Bloody Ground (Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles #4), Travels with Charley: In Search of America, Matar a un ruiseor (To Kill a Mockingbird), To Kill A Mockingbird: Barron's Book Notes, New York Times" data-ean="9780062409867" data-title="Go Set a Watchman">See Details, Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History, The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714. Without any doubt, this book immediately takes its place as the best available account of this phase of the war.

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