The Hundred Years War

by Édouard Perroy, David C. Douglas (Introduction)

Reeditado en numerosas ocasiones en el mercado francés, esta monografía sigue siendo todavía el más completo estudio del gran conflicto medieval francobritánico. De la batalla de Crécy a Juana de Arco, se describe con minuciosidad todo este largo periodo ilustrando a la perfección tanto el conflicto militar como los cambios sociopolíticos que de él se derivan.

Genres: History, Medieval History, Medieval, France, British Literature

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1945

Reviews

[Mónica Cordero Thomson]

Libro muy completo sobre las causas, fases y consecuencias de la Guerra de los Cien Años.
a mí me gustó mucho, porque está muy bien tratado y es muy ameno de leer.
Muy recomendable para los expertos de la materia y aquellos interesados en este período histórico.

[Josh Liller]

I read parts of this book as research for a Medieval England university class.

This book was originally written in the 1940s. A great deal of more recent books are available on the Hundred Years War and nearly all cite Perroy's book as one of their sources.

What makes this book particularly useful is that Perroy is French; most English language books on the war are written by historians in England and predominately from an English perspective. Perroy gives plenty of space in his book to both sides of the war. This is not really a military history; he takes a much wider view of the war. He goes into so much detail about what is happening in England and France that the book seems to lose sight of it's titular subject. But this seems in line with Perroy's thesis: that what was going on outside the fighting really defined the course of the war, particularly the shifts between stability and turmoil within the two governments.

I don't think this is should be the first book anybody reads on the Hundred Years War, but it definitely seems to have a usefulness despite its age.

[Kate Feline]

Книга, написанная для своих: с одной стороны, ничего принципиально нового в ней нет, с другой - многие имена-названия не имели вообще никакого комментария, как будто читатель и так должен все это знать.

[Elaine Smith]

If you are interested in learning more about the 100 years war from BOTH sides, this is a good book--but only if you are very, very familiar with this time period. He glosses over Crecy, Poitiers, Angincourt with a few lines, and talks about the aftermath. I learned a lot about what happened with the French. He's opinionated, but that was fine with me as he was the head of the medieval history department at the Sorbonne.

[Jack]

A good read for understanding the 100 yr war. Good information on both sides of the war.

[Óscar]

Imprescindible para conocer con detalle este conflicto bélico.

[Juan González]

Infumable, es un clásico pero menos mal que la historiografia ha avanzado hacia algo más potable

[Matt Demo]

Most impressive for the conditions under which it was written.