Allmand - The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c.1300-c.1450

Cambridge medieval textbooks

THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR

Cambridge Medieval Textbooks

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England and France at war c. 1300 c. 1450

CHRISTOPHER ALLMAND

Formerly Professor of Medieval History, University of Liverpool

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cambridge University Press 1988

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First published 1988

Reprinted 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999

Revised edition 2001

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

Allmand, C.T.

The hundred years war

(Cambridge medieval textbooks)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index

1. HundredYearsWar, 13391453. 2. FranceHistory

Military13281589. 3. Great BritainHistory,

MilitaryMedieval period, 10661485 I. Title.

II. Series.

DC96.A44 1987 944.025 87-13251

ISBN-13 978-0-521-31923-2 paperback

ISBN-10 0-521-31923-4 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2005

For
Bernadette

This book is the product of a way of presenting the subject which has been forming in my mind since I began to teach the subject a good many years ago. I am not the first nor, I suspect, shall I be the last to have found the writing of a general book more of a challenge than I had anticipated when I took it on. Only the reader will be able to tell how useful and successful the experiment will have been.

The preface is usually the last part of a book to be written. By the time that stage is reached, the writer knows to whom he is indebted. To the many Liverpool students who, over the years, have stopped me in my tracks by telling me that what seemed clear to me was not so to them, I owe a debt of gratitude. I am grateful, too, to the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press for inviting me to write this book, to Mrs Betty Plummer for typing the text, and to Kay McKechnie for carrying out her work as the Presss subeditor with such efficiency.

To an old friend, James Sherborne, I owe a particularly warm word of thanks. A dozen or more years ago he organised a very successful conference at Bristol on the theme of this book. When I asked him if he would read my draft, he accepted and completed the work with speed. He saved me from a number of errors of both fact and interpretation, while also making valuable suggestions how to improve the text. None the less, as the person whose name appears on the title page, I accept full responsibility for what is contained in the chapters which follow.

Christopher Allmand

1 France in 1337

2 France in 1360

3 France in 1429

The succession to the crown of France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries