Example sentences of "[art] hundred years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1914 , Sulgrave Manor was presented by a body of British subscribers to the Peoples of Great Britain and the United States of America , in celebration of the Hundred Years Peace between the two nations . |
| 2 | The strategic equivalent of the Constitution are the ‘ Three Pillars ’ of British strategy that cohave evolved since Crécy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 3 | That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th . |
| 4 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 5 | Needless to say , I have a knowledge of the Hundred Years War and feuds between England and France . |
| 6 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 7 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 8 | Plantagenet claims to hold more extensive territories in France , which the period 1259–1340 was to do little to quell , are clearly worthy of serious consideration in any analysis of the origins of the Hundred Years War . |
| 9 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 10 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 11 | When Edward III wished to offer an especially lavish girt of twelve table vessels of pure gold , a great cup and ewer , twenty-four spoons , and forks ‘ on which to hold meat ’ to Pope Benedict XII on the eve of the Hundred Years War in 1337 , his agent still bought them in Paris . |
| 12 | Anglo-French diplomacy before the Hundred Years War provided opportunities for ‘ cultural ’ connections to be exploited and sustained . |
| 13 | We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 14 | If , as is usually argued , the course of Anglo-French relations before the Hundred Years War was largely dictated by disputes over them , their nature is highly significant . |
| 15 | The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests . |
| 16 | This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War . |
| 17 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 18 | THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR |
| 19 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
| 20 | It is this decision which is taken to mark the beginning of the Hundred Years War . |
| 21 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 22 | The alternative and , in the last resort , not so very different view is that which sees the Hundred Years War as a wider civil war in which a policy of royal centralisation , based on Paris , was opposed not only by the dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy ( in both cases king of England ) , but by those of Brittany , and ( late in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ) , Burgundy . |
| 23 | It also served to show that the Hundred Years War was no longer simply a conflict between England and France : others were being caught up in it , too . |
| 24 | It is open to debate whether the Hundred Years War helped to prolong the Schism within the Church , but that the Schism hardened the attitudes of the French and English nations to each other is undoubted . |
| 25 | This was the most important treaty of the Hundred Years War . |
| 26 | Although men of the day may not have known it , the Hundred Years War was effectively over . |
| 27 | Yet at the time of the Hundred Years War , with the concept of the nation state , and of the need for its interests to be defended , taking root , the raison d'être of war was slowly changing . |
| 28 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 29 | None the less , as has been argued , the Hundred Years War would never be settled by a major engagement in which the cavalry alone played the decisive role . |
| 30 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |