Hundred Years War. Corrigan G.

The war began almost like an absurd joke, almost as an occasion for a large -scale knightly tournament - and then the knights of two prosperous states - England and France began to give their lives on this “big tournament”... So what is the reason for the bloody armed conflict For more than a hundred years, who has determined the development vector of the whole of Europe? In the imperfection of openly slanted French laws on the throne? In the need for increasing England, to oust France from the place of the “All -European Queen of Trade and Diplomacy”?.. The famous military historian Gordon Corrigan offers in his famous and controversial book his own, absolutely original view of events, without which there would be neither a peasant, nor Poitiers, Neither Azencur, nor the exploits of Jeanne d'Arc...