Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War. 'Sir John Mandeyille's' 'Voyage.' Chaucer, 1338-1400.

Joan, at the young age of 17, led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, a prolonged conflict between France and England from 1337 to 1453.

BY BEN CATLEY-RICHARDSON AS THE Hundred Years' War erupts in 14th Century France, newly orphaned youngsters Amicia and Hugo surely couldn't imagine things would get worse.

The Hundred Years' War is the least of Amicia and Hugo's problems as they face plague houses, mass graves and flesh-eating rats

| 1356: The English, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeated the French at the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War.

One theory says his moniker comes from the slaughter of 3,000 men, women and children in the French town of Limoges in 1370 during the Hundred Years' War - yet doubt has been cast on this historical stain on his reputation.

On the shallow proscenium stage of Boston's Huntington Avenue Theatre, Dan Daly's painted flats and steps and strangely unutilized central door created a decent approximation of a 14th-century Calais household interior at the start of the Hundred Years' War, when the stalwart French were besieged by the implacable (until the finale) Edward III of England.

Available now AS the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt approaches, adventurer and endurance athlete Sir Ranulph Fiennes recounts his ancestors' heavy involvement on both the English and French sides of the Hundred Years' War. Drawing on parallels from his time serving in the armed forces and as a leader of men on expeditions, Fiennes is able to tell the story from a unique vantage point, highlighting strategies and manoeuvres in graphic detail.

But the modern plague isn't as lethal, leading scientists to think conditions in medieval Europe--like famines, colder weather, and the Hundred Years' War between France and England--may have contributed to the almost 200 million deaths.

As he did in two earlier magisterial volumes, Jonathan Sumption continues to redefine our understanding of the Hundred Years' War. In the current volume, Divided Houses, Sumption covers the period 1369-1399, an epoch that is generally overlooked in both textbooks and syllabi as it is not an era of famous set-piece battles and chivalric posturing but rather one of brutal, seemingly inchoate, low-level conflict.

1356: The English, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeated the French at the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War. 1881: James Abram Garfield, 20th US president, died of wounds from when he was shot in July.

She led the French army to a number of victories over the english in the Hundred Years' war. She was captured by the english and burned at the stake in 1431.