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The History of the Hundred Years' War: A Conflict of Rivalries
An overview of the Hundred Years' War between England and France: the rival claims, the main phases from 1337 to 1453, and how the long conflict ended.
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The Hundred Years War
The long English and French conflict and the Black Prince.
The Black Prince: A Hero of the Hundred Years' War
How Edward of Woodstock earned his fame as a commander at Crecy and Poitiers, and why chroniclers of his own time praised him as a model prince.
The Black Prince: A Notorious English Knight
Why the Black Prince has a mixed reputation: his destructive chevauchee raids across France, the 1370 sack of Limoges, and how historians weigh them today.
The History of the Black Prince
A short biography of Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, from his childhood and early titles to his illness and death in 1376, before he could be king.
The History of the Black Prince: A Study of Chivalry and Honor
How chivalric ideals shaped the image of the Black Prince, from his courteous treatment of the captured King John II to the harsher deeds that complicate it.
The History of the Hundred Years' War: A Study of Conflict and Diplomacy
How truces and treaties such as Bretigny, Troyes and Arras shaped the Hundred Years' War, and why negotiation so often failed to bring a lasting peace.
The Hundred Years' War: A Conflict of Kings
The royal claims behind the Hundred Years' War: how the end of the Capetian line, Edward III's descent and the Valois succession set two crowns against each other.
The Life and Times of Joan of Arc
The story of Joan of Arc, from her village origins to her trial and execution in 1431 and her later reputation, with notes on what the surviving sources can tell us.
The Life of Joan of Arc
A short narrative of the Maid of Orleans: her childhood in Domremy, the road to Chinon, the relief of Orleans in 1429, her capture and her trial and death at Rouen.
The Life of Joan of Arc: A Heroine of the Hundred Years' War
Where Joan of Arc fits in the French military recovery of the 1420s, what she did in the field, and how much of her actual command remains uncertain.
The Medieval Period of the Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War divided into its main phases and truces between 1337 and 1453, with a look at what changed in warfare, finance and politics between them.
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