Sentences with phrase «hundred years war»

Mind you, Western Europe in the lead - up to the Hundred Years War or the French Revolution was likely no place to be, if you like to eat.

The Great Schism, the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the development of gunpowder, the dire economic circumstances brought on throughout Europe by the advent of the Little Ice Age, and the dislocations wrought by urban development, social mobility, and the Crusades, were all of crucial importance to the formation of the anxiety and insecurity that made the nominalist vision of the world believable.

It loosely retells the story of The Hundred Years war which took place between the kingdoms of England and France way back in the 14th and 15th century.

I was just thinking about Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War the other day, but that's not especially spooky as I think about it quite a lot.

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War is brilliant and I'm so glad it's coming back.

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War!

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War is a 2007 tactical action game set during the eponymous conflict and developed by Omega Force, the team behind Dynasty Warriors and its sibling franchises.

As such, it's going to be called «Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War & Nightmare».

The game attempts to recreate and deliver the feel of medieval war, with thousands of characters simultaneously quarrelling, which features an accumulative 70 medieval battles, 26 of which take place in the Hundred Years War, itself, from 1337 through to 1453.

The game is based on several events during the Hundred Years War, a historical period where some of the most famous medieval conflicts fought between France and England consequently shaped the future of both countries for centuries to follow.

HISTORY GBM, intelligently keeps its emphasis solely on the game's plot: the Hundred Years War.

Bladestorm — Nightmare (PS4 / XB1): In this new strategy game the player takes the role of mercenary and chooses to fight either for England or for France in missions inspired by real events and battles of the era dubbed the Hundred Years War» (1337 - 1453).

The Hundred Years War, a conflict between England and France for control of the French throne which raged from 1337 until 1453 posed a threat to many provincial French towns; the construction of stout defensive walls protected Martel and the town became prosperous again in the fifteenth century.

The town became very prosperous following the Hundred Years War, leading its wealthy citizens to construct beautiful buildings that you can still see today as you stroll through the ancient streets.

The current abbey and church of Sainte - Marie de Souillac is one of the town's architectural highlights and dates back to the twelfth century, although damage sustained during the Hundred Years War and a subsequent fire led to extensive rebuilding in the seventeenth century.

Joan of Arc was executed nearby in the second half of the Hundred Years War.

The abbey has been restored and rebuilt on a number of occasions during a turbulent history that has seen it looted and devastated by Vikings, besieged by the English during the Hundred Years War and almost entirely destroyed by Protestants during the Wars of Religion.

At this juncture I will spare you the history lesson, but suggest that some digging, especially with attention to The Hundred Years War, will give you a greater appreciation of the back and forth between England and the Continent over a thousand years.

Spun Stories Press, $ 18.99 paper (478p), ISBN 978 -15120884-96; $ 5.99 e-book ISBN 978 -0-9848169-1-0 Amazon As the Hundred Years War comes to an end and the War of the Roses is about to begin, the wife of Richard, duke of York, bears a son after a love affair.

From Shakespeare's Henry V (1598), Act 3, Scene 1 Setting: Before Harfleur (a town in Northern France besieged by Henry V during the Hundred Years War) KING HENRY V: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

Covers Norman Conquest, Hundred Years War, Wars of the Roses.

The jug can be used to explore themes as diverse as the growth of medieval trade and towns, the Hundred Years War and the drinking habits of medieval Europe.

PlayStation 3 (5) Blade Storm: Hundred Years War (Koei) Fatal Inertia (Koei) Gundam: Mobile Suit (Namco Bandai) Ridge Racer 7 (Namco Bandai) Vampire's Rain (AQ Interactive)

Henry V reignited the Hundred Years War with France, but this film will explore his early days and inner conflict with being thrust into power after his brother is killed in battle (the real Henry V succeeded his father as king of England).

So with that said, the game is based on the 2007 title from Koei Tecmo, Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War which has received a slight next - gen facelift with the inclusion of a new mode called Nightmare which introduces new elements that were not found on the PlayStation 3 version.

Story mode — revisiting one of the lengthiest and most politically unstable periods in European history — the Hundred Years war that raged between 1337 and 1453.

Taking a leaf out of the history books plus lots of artistic liberty, Bladestorm Nightmare focuses on the war between England and France called the Hundred Years War which was between two powerful houses, that of Plantagenet and Valois.

The length of the Hundred Years War is understated in its name.

The graceful and inspiring Catholic church that has dominated Paris since the 12th century, survived the Hundred Years War, the French Revolution and two World Wars is being readied for an invasion of camera - wielding birthday visitors.

Later in the Middle Ages, and particularly during the era of the Hundred Years War, this canonical and theological conception of just war was further elaborated by incorporation of ideas, customs, and practices from the chivalric code and the experience of war, from renewed attention to Roman law, especially the jus gentium, and from the developing experience of government.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

On the other hand, the Invasion of the East in the 1200s and the crusades and the Hundred years war and so many others were specifically religious, as was the Inquisitions, witch burnings, heresy trials and torture, and so on.

The hundred years war for instance, the holocaust, all the wars in the middle east, etc..

Europe went through the Hundred Years War which was driven by religious differences and they never want to see religion in the public square again.

I've also been reading a lot, as usual — currently historical fiction (Hundred Years Wars / Wars of the Roses period) and the real period of history that is the subject of my historical fiction reads as well as Tom Standage's books about the Turk, a chess - playing automaton, (reviewed here) and the history of the telegraph.

I've also been reading a lot, as usual — currently historical fiction (Hundred Years Wars / Wars of the Roses period) and the real period of history that is the subject of my historical fiction reads as well as Tom Standage's books about the Turk, a chess - playing automaton, (reviewed here) and the history of the telegraph.

The third part of the Stonehearted series, a fast - paced medieval adventure story set during the epic Hundred Year War between England and France.

Not exact matches

For hundreds of years, Western culture has been at war with noise.

For the last hundred years people thought the war was simply between employers and employees over workplace conditions, wage levels and benefits.

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.

They used the history of the mother country (England) as a model for what they DID NOT want... hundreds of years of war, murders, political intrigue, bigotry, and intolerance nearly all caused directly or indirectly by the Catholic church in Rome or later the Church of England (founded by Henry the VIII because he wanted a divorce... LOL)

Anyone who experienced World War II as an adult is now nearly one hundred years old.

I think it's a load of BS because it has plagued mankind for hundreds of years causing nothing but war, division and trauma to the human psyche.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

According to the conventional narrative, science and religion have been at war for some three hundred years.

The issue of protecting the basic rights of persons from hostile or indifferent state governments was constitutionally resolved almost one hundred and fifty years ago in the Fourteenth Amendment, purchased with the blood of hundreds of thousands of American lives in the awful crucible of the Civil War.

Yet if God wills that [this war] continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondsmen's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall he paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said «the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.»

Four hundred years after this epidemic (and a subsequent nuclear war initiated by «Muslim radicals»), the book description says, «a new and noble civilization emerges.»

As for islam, it seems to be where christianity was a few hundred years ago, dominant, violent, plagued by factionalism and willing to murder and make war to keep power.