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Jonathan Sumption
This text is the first volume in a series that details the endeavour of the English to dismember Europe’s strongest state. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France…
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Eight centuries ago was not part of France. The principality on the Mediterranean, ruled by the house of Toulouse, seemed far apart from the world of the feudal north. It…
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).
Mitchell Ridge
Born on December 9, 1948, in Hertfordshire, England, Jonathan Sumption emerged not just as a legal luminary but as a force that reshaped the very fabric of the legal world…
Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.
What is the right relationship between the law and politics, judges and politicians?
A History Book Club selection. This will become a standard account of the War. –
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…
The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption’s prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.
An essential examination of the hinterland between the law and politics, judges and politicians.
In a fascinating work of history, Sumption brings alive the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the 15th century.
In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened…
The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.
Establishing Parliament as the ultimate source of power in the land and enshrining basic civil rights, this document can justly claim to serve as the origin of Britain’s democracy. An…
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…
The hugely acclaimed fourth volume in Jonathan Sumption’s prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.
Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them.
En las ultimas decadas las democracias de todo el mundo han acusado cierto anquilosamiento. Muchas veces la ley y la politica se perciben como ajenas y las camaras legislativas, congresos…
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This long-awaited third volume of Jonathan Sumption’s monumental history of the war narrates the period from 1369 to 1393, a span marked by the slow decline of English fortunes and…
