Lyudi, srazhavshiesya i umiravshie pri Kresi, Puate i Azenkure, i ne podozrevali, chto zhivut v epohu Stoletney voyny. Etu voynu pridumali istoriki, dlya sovremennikov eto byla chereda beskonechnyh konfliktov mezhdu frantsuzskimi Kapetingami i angliyskimi Plantagenetami. Na frantsuzskom gerbe - lilii, na Angliyskom - leopard. Vse, konechno, nachalos iz-za zhenschiny. V etoy voyne tesno pereplelis bezrassudnaya lyubov, revnost, predatelstvo, otvaga, chudesa i predatelstvo. Izvestnyy rossiyskiy medievist Nataliya Ivanovna Basovskaya v svoey knige razvorachivaet pered chitatelem trehsotletnyuyu panoramu srazheniy i diplomaticheskih intrig, vossozdaet obrazy glavnyh geroev Alienory Akvitanskoy, Richarda Lvinoe Serdtse, Kar- la Mudrogo i Zhanny d'Ark.