The Hundred Years War

A People's History

De: David Green

Narrado por: Michael Page

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.

©2014 David Green (P)2021 Tantor

A truly telling rendition of the 100-Years War

If one would like to step away from the pedestrian renditions of late medieval combat and better understand the socioeconomic dynamics of Franco-Anglo war, I think this is an excellent place to start.

Instructive

The aubiobook reviews different aspects of the Hundred Years War, not only the political ones: this is the reason for the subtitle "A people's story". The authors describes aspects like chivalry, involvement of the Church, situation of women, war prisioners, formation of a national identity in both France and Britain, development of French and English, etc.

No organization whatsoever

I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I have never encountered a book with so little regard for chronology in my life. I know that the people‘s history is not necessarily tied to a timeline, but this thing wanders around and loops back on itself over and over and over again.Maybe in Print , it would not be as noticeable, but in audio format, it is unbearable. I could not finish it.