Jonathan Sumption is the author of
Pilgrimage and
The Albigensian
Crusade, as well as his celebrated five-volume history of the Hundred Years War -
Trial by Battle,
Trial by Fire,
Divided Houses,
Cursed
Kings and
Triumph and Illusion. He was awarded the 2023 Franco-British Society Literary Award for
Triumph and Illusion and the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for
Divided Houses.
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 and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal...
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