Lualdi 13:2 Walsingham Peasant Rebels in London
How does Walsingham’s position in society affect his recording of events? What does the account suggest about economic and political conditions in late fourteenth-century England? How did the rebels choose their targets? Why? Finally, what was their attitude toward religious authority?
Froissart On the Hundred Years’ War
How do these excerpts illustrate the paradox of chivalry in late medieval warfare? Incorporate the following into your discussion:
· the slaughter of the Genoese (“Genoways”) mercenary crossbowmen. Why does the French king order them killed? What are the consequences for the battle?
· Henry of Luxembourg’s last stand.
· the taking of the French king, and the Black Prince’s treatment of the captive king later that night.
· the same prince’s orders on taking the city of Limoges.