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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"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 community, and the crown had already begun to exercise tighter control over the practice of war. The resulting tensions between public and private interests over ransoms and prisoners of war were apparent. Historians have long emphasised the significance...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
Description
In 1366, while England is at war with Spain, young Alleyne Edricson becomes a squire to Sir Nigel Loring and travels to France to join a bold band of archers known as the White Company.
Author
Series
Grail quest volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal English village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized in the casual savagery of a particular black-clad knight, whose flag -- three yellow hawks on a blue field -- presides over the bloody affair. As the killers sail away, Thomas vows to avenge the murder of his townspeople and to recapture...
Author
Series
Collection Campagnes and stratégies. Grandes batailles volume Numéro 42
Publisher
50 Minutes
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
12) Vagabond
Author
Series
Grail quest volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
From internationally bestselling author Bernard Cornwell comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Archer's Tale, in his acclaimed Grail Quest series, in which a young archer sets out to avenge his family's honor on the battlefields of the Hundred Years' War and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. 1347: a year of war and unrest. England's army is fighting in France, and its absence encourages the Scots to invade the old enemy. Thomas of Hookton,...
13) Essex dogs
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War. July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory...
Author
Series
Chivalry volume 1
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
William Gold comes into the world as his family slides down the social ladder. His head is filled with tales of chivalry, yet he is branded a thief, and must make do with being squire to his childhood friend Sir Robert, a knight determined to make a name for himself as a man at arms in France. While William himself slowly acquires the skills of knightly combat, he remains an outsider--until the Battle of Poitiers, when Sir Robert is cut down by the...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young Jeannette, at the tender age of eight, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of France.