Seven Years' War

Born in c. 1028, William the Conqueror’s sovereignty began as he was crowned the Duke of Normandy around the young age of 8 years old, but his influence did not stop in France. After allegedly being promised the English throne by Edward the Confessor, William fought for the throne against Harold Godwinson and won, becoming the first Norman king of England. William proved to be incredibly significant during both reigns as the Duke of Normandy and King of England. William the Conqueror was the…

Thirty Years War 1618-1648 The Thirty Years War brought devastation to Europe during the early seventeenth century. It was a conflict between religious views and political rule in Europe that began in 1618 and ended in 1648, and r was fought primarily within the Christian community over which denomination should rule the Holy Roman Christian Empire within Europe, Catholics,or Protestants., or. The war is categorized into periods, the Bohemian Phase, Danish Phase, the Swedish Intervention…

Bordeaux in 1453, the Hundred Years’ War is considered one of the bloodiest wars of its time (Saunders, Turnbull 125, 142). The war lasted 116 years (125). The Hundred Years’ War illustrates turmoil in history where England tried to control France so that the English kings could expand their territorial holding in France. The Hundred Years War that started in 1337 was actually series of wars (Saunders, Turnbull 125). One of the main contributing factors to the war was when the last French…

Mr. Donahue, Amongst the many remarkable figures in history, Joan of Arc is one of the most incredible. A simple maid, born in the farmlands of France during the Hundred Years war. Who was called, by God, to bring peace and unity her broken nation at a very young age. Joan then endured persecution and imprisonment from the enemy, always acting on God’s will and not her own. As Joan herself put it, “What I do, I do by commandment.” A very pious girl, Joan started hearing the voices of Saints and…

The Heroine of Medieval France How strong is your desire for wealth and power? If you ask the monarchs back in the medieval years, they would have probably told you “So strong it causes a war between nations”. History has proven their bid for power and wealth. In a specific case, the Hundred Years War was a battle of ownership for the French throne between the English and the French. But the more specific reasons were the ambition of French monarchy to expand their land, which contradicts…

Politics and the Wars of Religion By: Phillip Ableidinger, Jin Johnson, and Matthew Kellen “Discuss the relationship between politics and religion by examining the wars of religion. Choose three specific examples from the following: the Dutch Revolt, the French wars of religion, the English Civil war, and the Thirty Years’ war.” Politics and religion have for long been two sides of the same coin. Although it’s easy to dismiss their relationship as desultory or ineffectual, it has jointly…

the Battle of Orléans. After being captured a year later, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic by the English and their French collaborators on May 30, 1431 in Rouen, France (Joan of Arc Biography n.d.). At age 13 Joan of Arc started receiving visions of God telling…

The Thirty Years’ War of the Holy Roman Empire originated as a religious feud between Prosthetics and Catholics that later advanced into a political conflict across Europe. Over the course of thirty years, Europe had exhausted itself at war and was faced with devastating losses, both religiously as the divide could not be solved by war, as well as political turmoil. The evolution from religious argument to political conflict is what marks the Thirty Years War as a turning point in European…

Once these voices stopped it took three years for her to obey them. When Joan of Arc first arrived in Vaucouleurs nobody believed her story about the voices. After several days she convinced the Governor to let her talk to Charles the VII. Joan of Arc had a private discussion with Charles the…

In George Bernard Shaw’s play, Saint Joan, the Inquisitor fiercely orates in an attempt to denounce Joan of Arc for her then crime against European society: heresy. The Inquisitor exploits his audience, the French Clerics, through a riveting pathos-oriented speech, to stimulate their deep religious attachment, with elements of ethos to make him appear authoritative, and a vast use of logical fallacies to warp the situation into his hands, like clay on a pottery wheel, Inquisitor ceramics. The…