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Feb 19, 2022 · The Black Death – The disease that killed half of Europe. Citizens of Tournai bury victims of the Black Death, c. 1353. Something happened in the Gobi Desert early in the 14 th century. It could have been the seeds of God’s wrath; it could have been the beginning of the end of the World; it was probably some transmutation of the bacterium ...
Jan 10, 2024 · January 10, 2024. Three times towards the end of the 14th century, between 1385 and 1387, French armies launched large and well-planned invasion bids against England. But even though France was the leading superpower of the time, on each occasion they failed. What is perhaps most surprising is that this episode, during the second phase of the ...
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Feb 2, 2024 · The medieval history of England and France was a close – if complicated – one, especially for elites. England’s royalty and nobility were deeply entwined with French lands, people and culture even in the early Middle Ages, long before the Norman Conquest of 1066. Contacts between the courts and clergy of England and Francia were frequent ...
Palmer, England, France, p. 1. For discussion of the size, composition and cost of armies in this period see J. W. Sherborne, ‘Indentured retinues and English expeditions to France 1369–89’, EHR, 79 (1964), 718–46, and his ‘The cost of English warfare with France in the later fourteenth century’, BIHR, 50 (1977), 135–50.
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Apr 17, 2023 · Watch Now. The sight of a French fleet approaching the coast was meant to be terrifying. In the 14th century, fighters dressed up to fight, and ships were highly decorated with banners, standards, and war pennants. The fleets that attacked England included many oared galleys from Genoa and Monaco, a type of ship hardly ever seen in English waters.
May 21, 2020 · 21 May 2020 marks the 600th anniversary of the Treaty of Troyes, a peace treaty which sought to unite the crowns of England and France under one king, Henry V and his heirs, and end the Hundred Years War. To mark the anniversary, our Principal Records Specialists in the Medieval team dug into our records to find out what happened in Troyes in 1420, and why the treaty ultimately failed.
1 day ago · The contributors, based mainly in England and France, reflect on a century’s worth of Anglo-French historical research. Framed between two treaties (Troyes and the Spanish Partition Treaties), the underlying hypothesis is that, despite bouts of conflict, England and France enjoyed significant periods of peace and cooperation which cultivated ...
