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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 85469885
TI  - In the steps of the Black Prince : the road to Poitiers, 1355-1356
PY  - 2011
SN  - 1782042172 1280377631 9786613555540 184615930X 1843836114 1843838745
PB  - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Poitiers, Battle of, France, 1356.
KW  - Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
KW  - Poitiers, Battle of, 1356
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Edward,
KW  - Woodstock, Edward of,
KW  - Black Prince,
KW  - Military leadership.
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 1355-1356.
KW  - Black Prince.
KW  - Campaigns.
KW  - French Campaigns.
KW  - Hundred Years War.
KW  - Landscape.
KW  - Military Expeditions.
KW  - Poitiers.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469885
AB  - The author has retraced on foot the routes taken by the Black Prince during the French campaigns of 1355-1356, enabling him to provide an entirely new dimension to the events. In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux and embarked on two 'chevauchées' [mounted military expeditions, generally characterised by the devastation of the surrounding towns and countryside], which culminated in his decisive victory over King Jean II of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the recorded itineraries as his starting point, the author of this book walked more than 1,300 miles across France, retracing the routes of the armies in search of a greater understanding of the Black Prince's expedition. He followed the 1355 'chevauchée' from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean and back, and that for 1356 from Aquitaine to the Loire, to the battlefield at Poitiers, and back again to Bordeaux. Drawing on his findings on the ground, a wide range of documentary sources, and the work of local historians, many of whom the author met on his travels, the book provides a unique perspective on the Black Prince's 'chevauchées' of 1355 and 1356 and the battle of Poitiers, one of the greatest English triumphs of the Hundred Years War, demonstrating in particular the impact of the landscape on the campaigns. Peter Hoskins is a former Royal Air Force pilot, now living in France. He combines his interest in exploration of his adopted country with his research into the Hundred Years War.
ER  -