In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux and embarked on two chevauchées 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 walked more than 1300 miles acr…
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.
An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society.
The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the conflict remains a sticking point in scholarship of medieval multilingualism and i…
