Article: Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside.(Review) (book review)

Knights and Peasants

The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside Nicholas Wright The Boydell Press 30 [pounds sterling] xiv + 144pp ISBN 0 85115 535 9

NICHOLAS WRIGHT'S EXCITING AND PROVOCATIVE book eschews the conventional political narrative of the Hundred Years' War, that of a struggle between the rival houses of Plantagenet and Valois. Nor is this a study of the big battalions and well-trodden campaigns, the tales of chivalric derring-do immortalised by the chronicler Jean Froissart. Instead, a new interpretative framework is set up, defining an entirely different, underlying dimension: a series of highly localised dashes between military ...

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