The Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War
If you asked anyone to name ten disasters of the European Middle Ages, or even five, their list would certainly include the Black Death and the Hundred Years War.
Tales from the Hundred Years War: How captains used trickery to profit from war
This kind of war did not look like the campaigns of kings; more often captains used trickery to defeat their enemies and plunder the opposing soldiers’ accumulated treasure.
Tales from the Hundred Years’ War: Christmas in the Count’s Court
At the feasts of Christmas, which he kept with great solemnity, crowds of knights and squires from Gascony waited on him, to all of whom he gave splendid entertainments.
Tales from the Hundred Years’ War: Try with me some feat of arms?
Gauvain Micaille challenges the English to a feat of arms.
Tales from the Hundred Years’ War: The Duel at La Roche Senadoire
So they joined battle and they did some fine fighting striking some blows on each other with their swords…