30 days ago by Jill James

I have a fascination with historical novels. I love losing myself in another time. I don’t usually enjoy first person point of view but it felt right for this novel. To understand that Alice Perrers felt helpless to change her … Continue reading →

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33 days ago by danielfranke79

Ok, so the responses I got from the “two cows” post were good, but also comparatively few. So, here’s my attempt at humor. I apologize a) if any of the references seem obscure, b) for the occasional use of ellipses to denote words unfit for polite company (they are more-or-less appropriate for their ...

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61 days ago by Steven Mandzik

On August 1, 1347, the city of Calais in France had fallen. The siege had been long, over 8 months, and the citizens were proud of their massive castle which was over 1,000 yards wide, surrounded by two moats, and protected by the sea at its back. The terms of the surrender were the lives of the six ...

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75 days ago by Medievalists.net

Patriotism, propaganda, profit - Anthony Tuck finds that these were the motives that led Englishmen to fight in France.

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76 days ago by Medievalists.net

In this article I will endeavour to fill this gap, and examine to what extent medieval commanders campaigning on different fronts could have cooperated with each other in pursuit of a common plan, and what was the potential importance of such cooperation.

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83 days ago by danielfranke79

Saw this news item from my friends at Medievalists.net, and oh boy this is exciting!! We’re all familiar (or should be) with Emperor Frederick II’s reputation as a multi-lingual man of affairs (though Heng’s description of him as a “Mozarabic emperor” is verrrry…hyperbolic, let’s say). As a person a ...

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84 days ago by Medievalists.net

This month's issue of BBC History Magazine features an article by Mark Ormrod that looks at how the English king Edward III tried establish positions of power for his various offspring and create what he calls a loose confederation among his sons that would rule over much of Western Europe.

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95 days ago by danielfranke79

[So much for November 1...] Part…whatever…of “How the Blog Suffers When Serious Work is Happening.” SO much piling up and so many interesting things happening, but how on earth to get to it all. I envy scholars such as Jeffrey J. Cohen and his associates at In the Middle, who manage to balance a [.. ...

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98 days ago by MA-Travels of Serendipity

At the time of the bloody battles of Sluys (1340) and Crécy (1346), where the archers played their role and 15.000 Frenchmen were killed (in each!), no prisoners and where the fish -or the worms- could have learnt French, and that determined that Calais was taken in 1447 given control of the Channel ...

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99 days ago by Alan Scott

The seventh novel in Candace Robb’s Owen Archer series, A Spy for the Redeemer, is an extension of the story in A Gift of Sanctuary. Owen is still in his home country of Wales after the death of his father-in-law after the conclusion of his pilgrimage. His wife Lucie remains in York with little comm ...

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