Life in France in the 100-years-war

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Leo van de Pas

Life in France in the 100-years-war

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 21 feb 2006 02:46:01

Would anyone know of a book or anything where descriptions can be found about life in France during the 100 years war? What was every day life like? What was the staple diet and so on.

Any help appreciated.
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia

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Re: Life in France in the 100-years-war

Legg inn av Gjest » 21 feb 2006 14:45:47

Hi Leo,
Nicholas Wright has written on the topic. Boydell published his book
"Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French
Countryside":

" This alternative account of peasant life during crisis is a
welcome addition to the historiography of late-medieval France... a
useful corrective to most standard interpretations of warfare and
peasantry. SPECULUM This work examines the soldier-peasant relationship
in the context of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), aiming to bring
out more closely the realities of the situation. It seeks an
understanding of different attitudes: how aristocratic soldiers
reconciled the ideals of chivalry with exploitation of non-combatants,
and how French peasants reacted to the soldiery, drawing on the
late-medieval literature of chivalry and political commentary in
England and (especially) in France. Employing additional documentary
material, including the largely unpublished records of the French royal
chancery, the book also describes the ways in which individual peasants
and village communities were exploited by soldiers, and how, in order
to survive, they adjusted to and reacted against their treatment."

Amazon have a look inside at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0851158 ... eader-page
and there will be a good bibliography if a library in Canberra has a
physical copy.

More of Nick on peasants in Volume: 33 Issue: 6 | June 1983 | Page 38 -
42
http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_all ... amid=12593

if you can track it down or happen to subscribe.

If you can manage a little French, Marie-Therese de MEDEIROS "Jacques
et Chroniqueurs" Paris 1979. The peasant revolt in 1358 was called the
Jacquerie so a search on that subject may bring things up for you.

It would be worth having a look for a lesser-known French chronicle,
"The Chronicle of Jean de Venette", in an academic library over there
as it's a really good easy primary source (Richard A. Newhall, ed.).
JdeV was Provincial Prior of the Carmelite Province of France from
1342, which Province then included Paris, the north of France, the Ile
de France and present-day Belgium. The Chronicle spans 1340 to 1368
and JdeV is 'a child of the people' but also best pals with Jeanne
d'Evreux who sold her jewels in 1349 to enable the Carmelites to
enlarge their monastery and build a new chapel. Her statue was to be
found in the courtyard, and the chapel was consecrated on 16 March 1358
in Jeanne d'Evreux's presence and that of three other queens from the
French royal family.

http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/s ... france.htm
has a small extract.

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