Knights and peasants. The hundred years war in the French countryside
Editorial BOYDELL & BREWER LTD
España peninsular
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 reco...
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- ISBN13 9780851155357
- ISBN10 0851155359
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 144
- Año de Edición 1997
- Encuadernación Tela
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Historia Medieval UniversalKnights and peasants. The hundred years war in the French countryside
Editorial BOYDELL & BREWER LTD
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 reco...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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 co 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 Employing additional documentary material, including the largely unpublished records of the French royal chancery, the book also describes the ways in which individual peasants and village communities were exploited by soldiers, and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.