Unit information: England and France at War and Peace, 1259-1399 (Level H Lecture Response) in 2009/10

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Unit name England and France at War and Peace, 1259-1399 (Level H Lecture Response)
Unit code HIST39008
Credit points 20
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Dr. Gibbons
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None
Co-requisites

None
School/department Department of History (Historical Studies)
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit addresses the causes and nature of the series of Anglo-French hostilities in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that would develop into the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) and set the seal (it might seem) on a permanent state of rivalry and distrust between the two nations. Since the height of the Angevin Empire in the mid-twelfth century, when the king of England had held more territory within the kingdom of France than did the French king, the two kingdoms had been almost continuously at war or preparing for war. However, when Edward III put forward a claim to the French Crown itself, conflict became unremitting and a compromise peace harder to conclude. For almost sixty years, English armies invaded several regions of France, achieving notable battlefield victories, devastating the landscape, but ultimately unable to push forward their advantages.

Teaching Information

10 x 1.5 hour interactive lectures

Assessment Information

1 x 3000 word essay (50%) and 1 x 2 hour exam (50%)

Reading and References

  • Froissart, Jean, Chronicles, ed. & trans. Geoffrey Brereton (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968)
  • Allmand, Christopher, The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, 1337-1453 (Cambridge, CUP, 1988)
  • Burne, Alfred H., The Cr�cy War: a military history of the latter part of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Br�tigny, 1360 (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955)
  • Curry, Anne, The Hundred Years War (2nd edn., Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
  • Rogers, Clifford J., War cruel and sharp: English strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 (Woodbridge, Boydell, 2000)
  • Sumption, Jonathan, The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle, vol. 1: Trial by Battle (London, Faber & Faber, 1990)
  • Vale, Malcolm G.A., The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340 (Oxford, Blackwell, 1990)

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