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Jonathan Sumption

    9. Dezember 1948

    Jonathan Sumption ist ein britischer Historiker und Autor, dessen Werke sich mit komplexen historischen Themen befassen. Sein Schreibstil zeichnet sich durch Tiefe und Präzision bei der Analyse vergangener Ereignisse und ihrer Auswirkungen aus. Sumption strebt nach fesselnden Erzählungen, die den Leser in die Zeit und den Kontext der beschriebenen Ereignisse eintauchen lassen. Seine Arbeiten werden für ihren intellektuellen Beitrag und ihre Fähigkeit, komplexe historische Prozesse zu beleuchten, geschätzt.

    Pilgrimage
    Hundred Years War Vol 1
    The Hundred Years War. Volume II, Trial by fire
    Hundred Years War Vol 3
    The Hundred Years War Vol 5
    Hundred Years War Vol 4
    • Hundred Years War Vol 4

      • 928 Seiten
      • 33 Lesestunden
      4,7(118)Abgeben

      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. This book tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family.

      Hundred Years War Vol 4
    • The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War, 'one of the great historical undertakings of our age' (Dan Jones, Sunday Times). Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War.

      The Hundred Years War Vol 5
    • Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and failure.

      Hundred Years War Vol 3
    • 'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history.

      Hundred Years War Vol 1
    • Pilgrimage

      • 400 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden
      4,3(8)Abgeben

      Vividly describing such major destinations as Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela and Canterbury, he examines both major figures - popes, kings, queens, scholars, villains - and the common people of their day.

      Pilgrimage
    • Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to rule England for fifty years, and was viewed as a paragon of kingship in the eyes of both his contemporaries and later generations. Venerated as the victor of Sluys and Crécy and the founder of the Order of the Garter, he was regarded with awe even by his enemies. But he lived too long, and was ultimately condemned to see thirty years of conquests reversed in less than five. In this gripping new account of Edward III's rise and fall, Jonathan Sumption introduces us to a fêted king who ended his life a heroic failure.

      Edward III
    • Law in a Time of Crisis

      • 208 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden
      4,0(121)Abgeben

      An essential examination of the hinterland between the law and politics, judges and politicians.

      Law in a Time of Crisis
    • The Albigensian Crusade

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,9(194)Abgeben

      In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful. This title examines the roots of the heresy. číst celé

      The Albigensian Crusade
    • The Age of Pilgrimage

      • 576 Seiten
      • 21 Lesestunden
      3,9(51)Abgeben

      We are apt to forget how much people traveled in the Middle Ages. Not only merchants, friars, soldiers and official messengers, but crowds of pilgrims were a familiar sight on the roads of Western Europe. In this engaging work of history, Jonathan Sumption brings alive the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the fifteenth century. Vividly describing such major destinations as Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela and Canterbury, he examines both major figures -- popes, kings, queens, scholars, villains -- and the common people of their day.

      The Age of Pilgrimage