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The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly community, and the crown had already begun to exercise tighter control over the practice of war. This led to tensions between public and private interests over ransoms and prisoners of war. Historians have long emphasised the significance of the French and English crowns' interference in the issue of prisoners of war, but this original and stimulating study questions whether they have been too influenced by the state-centred nature of most surviving sources. Based on extensive archival research, this book tests customs, laws and theory against the individual experiences of captors and prisoners during the Hundred Years War, to evoke their world in all its complexity.
History of Europe --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- Ransom --- Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453 --- Rançon --- Prisoners and prisons --- History --- Prisonniers et prisons --- Histoire --- Guerre de Cent ans (1337-1453) --- Prisoners and prisons. --- Rançon --- Guerre de Cent Ans (1337-1453) --- Rançon. --- Prisonniers et prisons. --- Arts and Humanities --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 - Prisoners and prisons
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The chronicles of Jean le Bel, written around 1357-60, are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. They were only rediscovered and published at the beginning of the twentieth century, though Froissart begins his much more famous work by acknowledging his great debt to the 'true chronicles' which Jean le Bel had written. Many of the great pages of Froissart are actually the work of Jean le Bel, and this is the first translation of his book. It introduces English-speaking readers to a vivid text written by a man who, although a canon of the cathedral at Liège, had actually fought with Edward III in Scotland, and who was a great admirer of the English king. He writes directly and clearly, with an admirable grasp of narrative; and he writes very much from the point of view of the knights who fought with Edward. Even as a canon, he lived in princely style, with a retinue of two knights and forty squires, and he wrote at the request of John of Hainault, the uncle of queen Philippa. He was thus able to draw directly on the verbal accounts of the Crécy campaign given to him by soldiers from Hainault who had fought on both sides; and his description of warfare in Scotland is the most realistic account of what it was like to be on campaign that survives from this period. If he succumbs occasionally to a good story from one of the participants in the wars, this helps us to understand the way in which the knights saw themselves; but his underlying objective is to keep 'as close to the truth as I could, according to what I personally have seen and remembered, and also what I have heard from those who were there.' Edward may be his hero, a 'gallant and noble king', but Le Bel tells the notorious story of his supposed rape of the countess of Salisbury because he believed it to be true, puzzled and shocked though he was by his material. It is a text which helps to put the massive work of Jean Froissart in perspective, but its concentrated focus and relatively short time span makes it a much more approachable and highly readable insight into the period.
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453 --- Old French literature --- Sources --- Chronicles. --- Crécy campaign. --- Edward III. --- English king. --- Europeanisation. --- Franco-Irish relations. --- Froissart. --- Hundred Years' War. --- Jean le Bel. --- Scotland. --- eyewitness accounts. --- historical perspective. --- knights. --- medieval warfare. --- personal experience. --- true chronicles.
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History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Western Europe --- Hundred years' war, 1339-1453 --- Military art and science --- War and society --- Guerre de Cent ans, 1339-1453 --- Art et science militaires --- Guerre et société --- Congresses --- History --- Congrès --- Histoire --- France --- Great Britain --- Burgundy (France) --- 355 <09> --- Militaire geschiedenis --- 355 <09> Militaire geschiedenis --- Guerre et société --- Congrès --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- France - History - Medieval period, 987-1515 --- Great Britain - History - Medieval period, 1066-1485 --- Burgundy (France) - History
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Montjeu, de, Philibert --- Bishops --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- Evêques --- Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453 --- Biography --- Biographie --- Montjeu, Philibert de, --- Concil de Basle (Play) --- France --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- 262.5*26 --- 929 PHILIBERT DE MONTJEU --- 262.5*26 Konstanz--(1414-1418) --- Konstanz--(1414-1418) --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--PHILIBERT DE MONTJEU --- De Montjeu, Philibert, --- Evêques --- Montjeu, Philibert de --- Bishops - France - Biography --- Montjeu, Philibert de, - ca. 1374-1439
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This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence of the conflict on Italy, the Low Countries, and Spain and on such topics as urban history, and the actualities of weapon use on the battlefield. A number of the essays in this collection seek to re-examine old but thorny questions long associated with the conflict, including the real immediate impact of gunpowder technology on siege warfare during the fourteenth century and the "purposeful" strategy of Henry V in staging and bringing about the battle of Agincourt in 1415. With contributions by L.J. Andrew Villalon, María Teresa Ferrer i Mallol, Donald J. Kagay, Clara Estow, William P. Caferro, Sergio Boffa, Peter Michael Konieczny, Paul Solon, Manuel Sánchez Martínez, James E. Gilbert, Jane Marie Pinzino, Clifford J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries, and John Clement. 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.
Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453 --- Honderdjarige oorlog, 1339-1453 --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of France --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453. --- France --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History, Military --- Foreign relations --- Histoire militaire --- Relations extérieures --- History [Military ] --- 1328-1589 --- 1066-1485 --- Guerre de Cent Ans (1337-1453) --- Military art and science --- History --- Relations extérieures. --- Diplomatic relations.
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Old French literature --- Jean le Bel --- Chronologie --- Geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen --- Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453 --- Histoire du Moyen Age --- Honderdjarige oorlog, 1339-1453 --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- Jean --- France --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Histoire --- Historians --- Historiography. --- 940.17 --- -Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 --- -Historiographers --- Scholars --- Geschiedenis van Europa:--1096-1492 --- Biography --- Historiography --- Le Bel, Jehan --- -Geschiedenis van Europa:--1096-1492 --- 940.17 Geschiedenis van Europa:--1096-1492 --- Le Bel, Jehan, --- Bel, Jean Le, --- Bel, Jehan Le, --- Jean, --- Jehan, --- Le Bel, Jean, --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 - Historiography. --- Historians - France - Biography --- Chroniques --- Jean le bel --- Litterature francaise medievale --- Moyen age --- Sources
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