The Hundred Years’ War

by Captivating History Book 4 in the The Medieval Period series.

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The Hundred Years’ War traces the long series of conflicts between the English Plantagenet and French Valois monarchies from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century. It covers Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the changing role of longbowmen and gunpowder, the intervention of Joan of Arc and the eventual French recovery. The book explains the dynastic claims, taxation and military organisation that sustained the wars and transformed both kingdoms.

The long conflict also changes the states conducting it. Repeated taxation, contracted troops, artillery and administrative demands strengthen royal institutions even when campaigns fail, while shifting noble loyalties complicate any simple national narrative. The final French recovery is therefore explained not only through battlefield success but through a greater capacity to sustain war and reclaim contested territory.