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Publisher: [London], London school of economicsPublication date: 1914Subjects: Finance -- Great Britain HistoryHundred Years' War, 1339-1453Wool industry -- Great Britain HistoryGreat Britain -- History Edward III, 1327-1377Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This book chronicles the overwhelming importance of the military archer in the major battles of the late medieval period. The longbow played a central role in the English victory at the battles of Crecy and Agincourt, and dominated the less well-known Battle of the Herrings in 1429. Used with complete disregarded for the chivalric code that governed war in the Middle Ages, the English longbow completely undermined the supremacy of heavy cavalry on the battlefield, demanding a wholesale reassessment of the tactics that had gone before. Richard Wadge explains exactly what made England's longbow archers so devastating on the battlefield, detailing the process by which their formidable armament was manufactured and the conditions that produced men capable of continually drawing a bow under a tension of 100 pounds. Wadge looks at the economics behind the supply of longbows to the English army and the social history of the military archer - what life was like in England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and what were the advantages of joining the first professional standing army in England since the days of the Roman conquest."The Military Archer in the Time of the Hundred Years War" paints a vivid portrait of the life of a professional soldier in the war which forged English national consciousness. ... Read more

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In this history of Anglo-French relations in the century before the Hundred Years War, the author examines the legacy of continental rule bequeathed by the Angevin Kings of England to their Plantagenet succesors. Drawing on new material from both English and French archives, he explores the sources of Anglo-French tension, some of which stemmed directly from this continental involvement. Conditions in the Duchy of Aquitaine, homage owed by the Plantagenets to the Kings of France, a tradition of private war among the Gascon nobility and Edward I's war with France are all examined. The breakdown of feudal and diplomatic relations between the two powers in 1340 was a breach with the past, and the subsequent emergence of clearer "national" and cultural distinctions can be viewed as a consequence of that rupture. ... Read more

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An illustrated history of the Hundred Years War covering the period of 1337-1453, which describes how English troops exploited the financial rewards of raiding and plundering French property, with discussion of England's hold over the region of Guyenne until 1453. ... Read more

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This book presents an edition of two treatises that examine the legal issues that arose during the Hundred Years War, namely the laws governing the succession to the French crown, English claims to territories within France, and the responsibility for the breeches of various treaties and truces. The first treatise, Pour ce que plusieurs, was written in 1464 by a French diplomat and administrator, Guillaume Cousinot, and is most famous for its part in establishing the myth that the royal succession in France was determined by a otiose law code of the Franks, the Salic Law. The second is an English response to these arguments, A declaracion of the trew and dewe title of Henrie VIII, written during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547). Thedeclaracion provides valuable evidence of English reactions to the rhetoric and propaganda generated by the French crown at the end of the middle ages. ... Read more

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During the Middle Ages the titanic clash between the Christian and Muslim worlds that centred on Palestine and lasted for some 200 years was one of the most unforgettable episodes in western history. For the crusaders the prize was the possession of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, which for hundreds of years had shimmered in the minds of European Christians as the most sacred place on earth. For the Muslims, on the other hand, the crusaders were not only the infidel, but a coarse, violent brigade of invaders - undoubtedly courageous and virile - lacking the refinements of civilization. The Crusades captures the excitement and drama of the battles, sieges, gruelling marches and surprise ambushes. It unravels the webs of politics and ever-shifting alliances between the crusaders and Muslims; and it conjures up the heroes and villains, and what life was really like for the thousands of Franks for whom Outremer was not so much a foreign land as a home. With maps to pinpoint the routes and places and a back-section glossary of the leading personalities and a chronology of events, The Crusades is a one-volume guide to the wars that became a legend. ... Read more

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Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period.

Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.

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The rise of Bertrand du Guesclin ranks as one of the most spectacular adventures in a fourteenth century rich in heroic tales. A poor Breton squire, ungainly and unlettered, he came of age at the onset of the Hundred Years War. He spent two decades engaged in irregular warfare in his native province before he became a knight, and was recognised by Charles V as the captain France needed. Du Guesclin fought on campaign from Normandy to Andalusia, tasted victory, was taken captive - and was finally victorious again, over such famed adversaries as Sir John Chandos and the Black Prince. He won a dukedom in Spain, but it was as Constable of France that he spearheaded the reconquest of French provinces lost after the defeat at Poitiers.His body was laid to rest among kings in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis, enshrined as the Tenth Worthy, hero of the last Old French epic, but Du Guesclin's spirit lives on in literature and folk memory, as flower of chivalry, soldier's soldier, patriot, and liberator of his country. ... Read more

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A return to my youth
I remember reading this book about 50 years ago, and enjoying it.The re-reading was entertaining, and reminded me of reasons the French have to dislike the English!The life in the times of the hundred years' war was very different, and entertaining to read about.It is a book suitable for teenagers, literate, but slow in pace by modern standards. ... Read more