Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time."Cursed Kings tells the story of the destructio
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national id
A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family
