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Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This Variorum collection of articles is intended to illustrate that
conflict in the late Middle Ages was not only about soldiers and
fighting (about the makers and the making of war), important as
these were. Just as it remains in our own day, war was a subject
which attracted writers (commentators, moralists and social critics
among them), some of whom glorified war, while others did not. For
the historian the written word is important evidence of how war,
and those taking part in it, might be regarded by the wider
society. One question was supremely important: what was the
standing among their contemporaries of those who fought society's
wars? How was war seen on the moral scale of the time? The last two
sections deal with a particular war, the 'occupation' of northern
France by the English between 1420 and 1450. The men who conquered
the duchy, and then served to keep it under English control for
those years, had to be rewarded with lands, titles, administrative
and military responsibilities, even (for the clergy) ecclesiastical
benefices. For these, war spelt 'opportunity', whose advantages
they would be reluctant to surrender. The final irony lies in the
fact that Frenchmen, returning to claim their ancestral rights once
the English had been driven out, frequently found it difficult to
unravel both the legal and the practical consequences of a war
which had caused a considerable upheaval in Norman society over a
period of a single generation.
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