Knights and Peasants

The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside

By:

Nicholas Wright

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Warfare in History

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This alternative account of peasant life during crisis is a welcome addition to the historiography of late-medieval France...a useful corrective to most standard interpretations of warfare and peasantry. SPECULUM This work examines the soldier-peasant relationship in the context of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), aiming to bring out more closely the realities of the situation. It seeks an understanding of different attitudes: how aristocratic soldiers reconciled the ideals of chivalry with exploitation of non-combatants, and how French peasants reacted to the soldiery, drawing on the late-medieval literature of chivalry and political commentary in England and (especially) in France. Employing additional documentary material, including the largely unpublished records of the French royal chancery, the book also describes the ways in which individual peasants and village communities were exploited by soldiers, and how, in order to survive, they adjusted to and reacted against their treatment.

Release date Australia

March 12th, 1998

Author

Nicholas Wright

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 b/w, 5 line illus.

Pages

158

Series

Warfare in History

Dimensions

166x236x9

ISBN-13

9780851158068

Product ID

5272825

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