The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century

A vivid and detailed picture of the variety and flexibility of the century's military forces. * THE HISTORIAN * Contains a great deal of valuable and thought-provoking research. * JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR ARMY HISTORICAL RESEARCH * Sustains the claim that few areas of medieval studies have flourished as much in recent years as military history has done. * ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE * An important volume. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY * Contribute[s] in several significant ways to our knowledge of late medieval English military history. [...] The groundbreaking efforts of these historians open the way for more extensive future investigations. * MEDIEVAL WARFARE * Extraordinarily rewarding. * MUHLBERGER'S WORLD HISTORY *

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 an Affiliated Lecturer in Medieval History at Cambridge University and Fellow and Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College. 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. RMY AMBHL is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK.

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 Maulon - 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