By Andrew Villalon, Donald Kagay
This quantity, the 1st of a two-volume set, is the paintings of fourteen eu and American students and specializes in the broader points of the Hundred Years. those essays diversity some distance afield from the normal heartlands of Hundred Years warfare stories to enquire the impression of the clash on Italy, the Low nations, and Spain and on such subject matters as city historical past, and the actualities of weapon use at the battlefield. some of the essays during this assortment search to reassess outdated yet thorny questions lengthy linked to the clash, together with the genuine quick influence of gunpowder expertise on siege conflict throughout the fourteenth century and the "purposeful" technique of Henry V in staging and bringing in regards to the conflict of Agincourt in 1415.
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Since introduction xlvii the great Catalan law code, the Usatges of Barcelona, first surfaced in the 1150s, Aragonese monarchs had increasingly invoked the socalled “national defense clause” (Princeps namque) contained in article 64 as a means of raising military forces. Now, during the war-torn 1360s, the city council of Barcelona launched a fiscal experiment, which it hoped world supply a cheaper and more efficient way of providing men for the war effort. It diverted taxes assessed on urban households ( fogatge) to both the hiring of military professionals and the payment of a militia raised from among the city’s male population.
1404) BURGUNDY Charles III (d. 1386) Louis Charles Joan I (d. 1382) John Robert (d. 1343) Charles II (d. 1309) Charles I of Anjou (d. J. Andrew Villalon University of Cinncinati On April 3, 1367,1 as the sun rose over northern Castile, largest of five kingdoms that shared the Iberian peninsula,2 two of the century’s greatest armies faced each other across a field awaiting orders that would propel them into one of the century’s greatest battles. From across the Pyrenees, by way of the neighboring kingdom of Navarre, came the invaders, an Anglo-Gascon force, battle-hardened in the Hundred Years War and commanded by England’s most famous soldier, Edward Plantagenet, known widely as the Black Prince (d.
Wilkins and Heanon M. Wilkins (Madison, 1985). In Pedro the Cruel, 1350 –1369 (Leiden, 1995), Clara Estow has contributed a fine full-length biography of the king. B. Sitges, Las Mujeres del Rey Don Pedro I de Castilla (Madrid, 1910). J. Andrew Villalon, “Pedro the Cruel: Portrait of a Royal Failure,” in Medieval Iberia: Essays on the History and Literature of Medieval Spain, ed. Donald J. Kagay and Joseph T. Snow (New York, 1997), 205–216. 5 Enrique dated his reign from his coronation in 1366; most historians, however, date it from 1369, the year in which Pedro I died.
