Conquest : The English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450 / Juliet Barker.
Barker, Juliet, author.
2012
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Title Conquest : The English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450 / Juliet Barker.
Author Barker, Juliet, author.
ISBN 9780674064751
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674064751
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (512 p.) : 3 maps, 2 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674064751 doi
Call Number DC102
Dewey Decimal Classification 944/.026
Summary For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword-an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years' War that Juliet Barker brings to vivid life in Conquest. Following Agincourt, Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would place the crown of France on an English head. Buoyed by conquest, the English army seemed invincible. By the time of Henry's premature death in 1422, nearly all of northern France lay in his hands and the Valois heir to the throne had been disinherited. Only the appearance of a visionary peasant girl who claimed divine guidance, Joan of Arc, was able to halt the English advance, but not for long. Just six months after her death, Henry's young son was crowned in Paris as the first-and last-English king of France. Henry VI's kingdom endured for twenty years, but when he came of age he was not the leader his father had been. The dauphin whom Joan had crowned Charles VII would finally drive the English out of France. Barker recounts these stirring events-the epic battles and sieges, plots and betrayals-through a kaleidoscope of characters from John Talbot, the "English Achilles," and John, duke of Bedford, regent of France, to brutal mercenaries, opportunistic freebooters, resourceful spies, and lovers torn apart by the conflict.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE
NOTES TO THE TEXT
MAPS
PART ONE. ESTABLISHING THE KINGDOM
CHAPTER ONE. Invasion
CHAPTER TWO. Conquest
CHAPTER THREE. Heir of France
CHAPTER FOUR. The English Kingdom of France
CHAPTER FIVE. Resistance
CHAPTER SIX. A Second Agincourt
PART TWO. JEHANNE D'ARC
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Pucelle
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Siege of Orléans
CHAPTER NINE. A New King of France
CHAPTER TEN. Capture
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Trial and Execution
PART THREE. WAR OF ATTRITION
CHAPTER TWELVE. A Year of Disasters
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Recovery
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Disorder and Defeat
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Treaty of Arras
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Fall of Paris
PART FOUR. THE SEARCH FOR PEACE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Defending Normandy
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Gains and Losses
CHAPTER NINETEEN. Missed Opportunities
CHAPTER TWENTY. A Last Military Effort
PART FIVE. THE TRUCE OF TOURS
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. A Truce and a Marriage
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. Concessions for Peace
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. The Surrender of Maine
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. The Truce Breaks Down
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. Reconquest
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX

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