Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.The long fourteenth century saw England fighting wars on a number of diverse fronts - not just abroad, in the Hundred Years War, but closer to home. But while tactics, battles, and logistics have been frequently discussed, the actual experience of being a soldier has been less often studied. Via a careful re-evaluation of original sources, and the use of innovative methodological techniques such as statistical analysis and the use of relational databases, the essays here bring new insights to bear on soldiers, both as individuals and as groups. Topics addressed include military service and the dynamics of recruitment; the social composition of the armies; the question of whether soldiers saw their role as a profession; and the experience of prisoners of war. Contributors: Andrew Ayton, David Simpkin, Andrew Spencer, David Bachrach, Iain MacInnes, Adam Chapman, Michael Jones, Guilhem Pepin, Remy Ambuhl, Adrian R. Bell
Introduction Military Service and the Dynamics of Recruitment in Fourteenth-Century England - Dr Andrew Ayton Total War in the Middle Ages?: The Contribution of English Landed Society to the Wars of Edward I and Edward II - David Simpkin A Warlike People? Gentry Enthusiasm for Edward I's Scottish Campaigns, 1296-1307 - Andrew Spencer Edward I's Centurions: Professional Soldiers in an Era of Militia Armies - David S. Bachrach Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bruce? Balliol Scots and 'English Scots' during the second Scottish War of Independence - Iain A. MacInnes Rebels, Uchelwyr and Parvenus: Welsh Knights in the Fourteenth Century - Adam Chapman Breton Soldiers from the Battle of the Thirty [26 March 1351] to Nicopolis [25 September 1396] - Michael Jones Towards a Rehabilitation of Froissart's Credibility: the non fictitious Bascot de Mauleon - Guilhem Pepin The English Reversal of Fortunes in the 1370s and the Experience of Prisoners of War - Remy Ambuhl The Soldier, 'hadde he riden, no man ferre' - Adrian R. Bell
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