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Jonathan Sumption
The son of a barrister, Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption attended Eton then Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in history in 1970. After being called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1975, he became a Queen's Council in 1986 and a Bencher in 1991. He is joint head... show more
The son of a barrister, Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption attended Eton then Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in history in 1970. After being called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1975, he became a Queen's Council in 1986 and a Bencher in 1991. He is joint head of Brick Court Chambers and was appointed to the UK Supreme Court in 2011. He has written numerous books on history and is a governor of the Royal Academy of Music.
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Birth date: 1948-12-09
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markk rated it 9 years ago
Two themes define the third volume of Jonathan Sumption's history of the Hundred Years' War. The first is the shift in fortunes from the English to the French. After the successes enjoyed by English arms in the 1350s that culminated in the capture of the French king John II, the tide began to turn a...
markk
markk rated it 9 years ago
The second volume of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the Hundred Years War begins with the English basking in the glow of the twin victories of Crécy and the capture of Calais. It was only the beginning of a series of miseries for the French, though, with the military blows soon followed b...
markk
markk rated it 10 years ago
The Hundred Years War is a conflict that stands out by virtue of its length -- and yet in one sense, it is only one episode in the longstanding struggle between England and France during the Middle Ages. From the moment Duke William the Bastard of Normandy defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of ...
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