The English victory at Agincourt against a numerically superior French army was a significant turning point in the Hundred Years’ War; the French had around 24,000 troops compared to England’s ...
The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations ...