Charny's Men at Arms -- the cover

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Continuing with the Chronicle of the Good Duke

Just this morning, I finished the next run through of the Chronicle of the Good Duke, the one where I fix errors created by the dictation software. This is going better than I thought.The next run through examines grammatical problems which I didn't figure out the first time. It will be harder.This time it occurred to me that if I eliminate all the phrases that mean "and so" that...

How useful was heavy cavalry in the Late Middle Ages?

According to the Chronicle of the Good Duke, written in 1429 but talking about events about twenty years earlier, Duke of Brittany looked across a battlefield  at the troops led by  the Constable of France, the Lord of Clisson, and reacted as follows:And the Constable Clisson, who was a valorous knight of bold enterprise, went boldly from his siege with his men arranged...

The Deeds of Arms series -- don't miss "Royal Jousts."

Soon – very soon indeed – my Charny’s Men at Arms will be available from Freelance Academy Press, complete with a full translation of Charny’s Questions on the Joust Tournaments and War. I’ve explained before that this book is not really part of the Deeds of Arms series (which I edit) from the same press, but it’s about nothing but “deeds of arms”.In the meantime, it's...

A review of "Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War: Ransom Culture in the Late Middle Ages" by Rémy Ambühl

From  the Medieval Review.Ambühl, Rémy.  Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War: RansomCulture in the Late Middle Ages.  Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2013.  Pp. xiv, 301.  $99.00.  ISBN-13: 9781107010949.   Reviewed by Jarbel Rodriguez        San Francisco State University        jarbel@sfsu.eduRémy...