5097–5213 AM · 1337 CE — 1453 CE · world history
The Hundred Years' War
England and France fight for more than a century and emerge as nations.
A dispute over the French crown and English holdings on the continent turns into endless campaigns. English longbowmen shatter mounted knights at Crécy and Agincourt; cannon begin to break castle walls. Joan of Arc lifts the siege of Orléans and turns the war before dying at the stake. England ends with almost nothing in France.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and chronicles of the period — the treaties and the chronicles of Froissart
Scholarship
- studies in European history — from Crécy to Castillon: the birth of two nations
Basis: documents and evidence.