M. Vysshaya shkola. 1985. 185 p. In the field of medieval studies, research on the history of international relations, foreign policy, and wars is a rare phenomenon. In this regard, the work of the head of the Department of General History of the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor N. I. Basovskaya, published in the form of a textbook in the series "Library of the Historian", is of interest. It is devoted to one of the largest and brightest events of Western European medieval history - the Hundred Years ' War, a plot that has not become the object of special research in either pre-revolutionary or modern Russian historiography. The Hundred Years ' War marked a certain stage in the development of the international system on the European continent with its inherent contradictions and a relatively stable balance of power over a long period of time. The political acuteness of the topic chosen by the author is proved by the active interest in it abroad, as well as some new trends in English and French bourgeois historiography. Particularly interesting in this regard are the unwillingness of some historians to emphasize the seriousness of the confrontation between Britain and France and the desire to translate the Hundred Years ' War into a narrowly dynastic, rather than international, conflict. The polemical focus of the work gives it additional scientific interest. The book consists of three chapters, an introduction and a conclusion, and is provided with maps and battle diagrams. Its main purpose was to analyze the causes, military history, and nature of the Anglo - French conflict. The author devotes a special chapter to its prehistory, beginning with the Viking age and the conquest of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066. This event marked the beginning of the existence of a state with a territory divided by the English Channel, and a monarch who, along the line of continental possessions, was a vassal of ... Read more