Product Description: This seventh volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional Western Middle Ages. It takes account of much new research and modern, interdisciplinary approaches to the study and writing of history to present a broad view of late medieval society across Europe...read more

Product Description: War's impact on two societies, England and France, in the late middle ages is fully explored through the evidence and commentary presented here, showing how they reacted to the conflict between them. The Hundred Years War forms the framework for the chosen documents, all from the fourteenth and fifteenth century; extracts show how men thought about war and how they faced up to these ideas in practice; the problems of manpower; and the effects of the military needs of the day on society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: `Well-balanced collection of essays...judiciously selected and presented'. 15TH CENTURY STUDIES Eight essays around the central theme of the the importance of popular support in the effective exercise of power, both political andreligious, and how that support was mustered in late medieval France...read more