The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations ...
The English victory at Agincourt against a numerically superior French army was a significant turning point in the Hundred Years’ War; the French had around 24,000 troops compared to England’s ...
A photograph authentically shows U.S. President Joe Biden exiting a Nantucket bookstore holding a copy of writer Rashid Khalidi's book, "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler ...
A photograph authentically shows U.S. President Joe Biden exiting a Nantucket bookstore holding a copy of writer Rashid Khalidi's book, "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler ...
The humble farm girl turned the tide for the French in the closing years of the Hundred Years’ War. Her claims that the divine voices she heard would lead France to victory made her one of the ...
A little over one hundred years ago Harriet Martineau ... S. and launch a holy war for woman’s rights. Last week in Manhattan some 300 delegates assembled in a Woman’s Centennial Congress ...