Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century

Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, and author of many works on the Hundred Years War, particularly on the battle of Agincourt. She also edited the 1422-53 section of the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. ADAM CHAPMAN, General Editor, Victoria County History, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular. David S. Bachrach is a professor of medieval history at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include the administrative and military history of the Carolingian Empire as well as the medieval German and English kingdoms. RÉMY AMBÜHL is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK.

A vivid and detailed picture of the variety and flexibility of the century's military forces.

• IntroductionMilitary Service and the Dynamics of Recruitment in Fourteenth-Century England - Dr Andrew AytonTotal War in the Middle Ages?: The Contribution of English Landed Society to the Wars of Edward I and Edward II - David SimpkinA Warlike People? Gentry Enthusiasm for Edward I's Scottish Campaigns, 1296-1307 - Andrew SpencerEdward I's Centurions: Professional Soldiers in an Era of Militia Armies - David S. BachrachWho's afraid of the Big Bad Bruce? Balliol Scots and 'English Scots' during the second Scottish War of Independence - Iain A. MacInnesRebels, Uchelwyr and Parvenus: Welsh Knights in the Fourteenth Century - Adam ChapmanBreton Soldiers from the Battle of the Thirty [26 March 1351] to Nicopolis [25 September 1396] - Michael JonesTowards a Rehabilitation of Froissart's Credibility: the non fictitious Bascot de Mauléon - Guilhem PepinThe English Reversal of Fortunes in the 1370s and the Experience of Prisoners of War - Remy AmbuhlThe Soldier, 'hadde he riden, no man ferre' - Adrian R. Bell