Hundred Years War (Part III)

Further Considerations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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In this work, the third volume of essays dealing with many understudied aspects of the Hundred Years War, American, British, and European scholars deal with the varied sources that reveal the lives of soldiers in the conflict as well as the development of strategy and generalship in the many theaters of the war. The authors also focus on real heroes and villains of the conflict as well as the war’s impact on regions as scattered as Wales, the Low Countries, Italy, Scotland and Spain.Contributors are Adrian Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Christopher Candy, Donald Kagay, William Caferro, David Hoornstra, Elena Odio, Daniel Franke, David Green, Philip Morgan, Sean McGlynn, Wendy Turner, Andrew Villalon, Aleksandra Pfau, Kelly DeVries, and Sergio Boffa.Winner of the 2014 Verbruggen Prize of De Re Militari (the Society for the Study of Medieval Military History) given annually for the best book on medieval military history.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-07-25
Mått155 x 235 x 39 mm
Vikt991 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory of Warfare
Antal sidor566
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004245648

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L.J. Andrew Villalon earned his degree in history at Yale University and has taught at the universities of Cincinnati and Texas. He has published essays in collections and in academic journals such as The Catholic Historical Review, Sixteenth Century Journal, Mediterranean Studies, and the Journal of Medieval Military History. He has published six books.Donald J. Kagay, is an expert in medieval legal and military history with a specialty in the medieval Crown of Aragon. He has published eleven books and has taught for twenty years at Albany State University (Georgia).

List of Illustrations ... ixList of Maps ... xiList of Contributors ... xiiiAcknowledgements ... xixAbbreviations ... xxiIntroduction ... 1PART ONE: NEW SOURCESThe Soldier in Later Medieval England: An Online DatabaseAdrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King and David Simpkin ... 19PART TWO: WAR LEADERS GOOD AND EVILA Growing Trust: Edward III and his Household Knights, 1330-1340Christopher A. Candy ... 49Battle-Seeking Commanders in the Later Middle Ages: Phases of Generalship in the War of the Two PedrosDonald J. Kagay ... 63Edward Despenser, The Green Knight and the Lance Formation: Englishmen in Florentine Military Service, 1366-1370William Caferro ... 85Boucicaut fĳils and the Great Hiatus: Insights from the Career of Jean II Le Meingre, called BoucicautDavid S. Hoornstra ... 105Gilles de Rais: Hero, Spendthrift, and Psychopathic Child Murderer of the Later Hundred Years WarElena Odio ... 145PART THREE: THE WAR’S EFFECT ON ENGLISH REGIONSWar, Crisis, and East Anglia, 1334-1340: Towards a ReassessmentDaniel P. Franke ... 187Wales, Welshmen, and the Hundred Years WarAdam Chapman ... 217PART FOUR: ENGLISH COLONIALISMThe Hundred Years War, Colonial Policy and the English LordshipsDavid Green ... 233Henry V’s Harfleur: A Study in Military Administration, 1415-1422Anne Curry ... 259Going to the Wars: Thomas, Lord Morley in France, 1416Philip Morgan ... 285PART FIVE: PSYCHOLOGICAL, FISCAL, AND “SCIENTIFIC” ASPECTS OF THE WAR“Sheer Terror” and the Black Prince’s Grand Chevauchee of 1355Sean McGlynn ... 317London Businessmen and Alchemists: Raising Money for the Hundred Years WarWendy J. Turner ... 333PART SIX: ROYAL PARDONS“Taking the King’s Shilling” to Avoid “the Wages of Sin”: English Royal Pardons for Military Malefactors during the Hundred Years WarL.J. Andrew Villalon ... 357Warfare, Trauma, and Madness in French Remission Letters of the Hundred Years WarAleksandra Pfau ... 437PART SEVEN: THE WAR IN THE LOW COUNTRIESThe English in the Southern Low Countries during the Fourteenth Century: The Medieval “Belgian” PerspectiveKelly DeVries ... 457The Duchy of Brabant between France, Burgundy and England: Geopolitics and diplomacy during the Hundred Years War (1383-1430)Sergio Boffa ... 475APPENDICESI Medieval Popes and Rulers ... 501II Battles, Campaigns, Treaties ... 511III Original Languages ... 515Bibliography ... 521Index ... 551