Henry V at Agincourt…Edward III at Crécy…the Black Prince at Poitiers…Joan of Arc at Orléans. The period called the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) was a cascade of violence filled with some of the most famous figures and fascinating fights in history. The central combatants, England and France, bore witness to deaths, tragedy, and glory. But there was more to this period than a struggle between two nations for dominance.
Military historian Michael Livingston frames how medieval Europe was consumed by two full centuries of war from 1292 to 1492. During those years, blood was spilled far beyond the borders of England and France. The Low Countries became war zones; Italy was swept up; so, too, the Holy Roman Empire, the Iberian Peninsula, Scotland, and Wales.
Drawing from his book Bloody Crowns, a critical revision of how modern Europe arose from medieval battlefields, Livingston describes a conflict that drove significant leaps forward in military technology and organization, political systems, and national identities and that laid the groundwork for the modern world.
Livingston is Citadel Distinguished Professor at the Citadel and the former secretary-general for the United States Commission on Military History. His book, Bloody Crowns A New History of the Hundred Years War (Basic Books) is available for purchase.
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