Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War - Ransom Culture in the Late Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor Rémy Ambühl is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Southampton. Klappentext This book explores the individual and complex experiences of captors and prisoners, and the practice of ransoming, in the Hundred Years War. Zusammenfassung The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. This original and stimulating study tests laws! concepts and theory against the individual experiences of captors and prisoners during the Hundred Years War! to evoke their world in all its complexity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Law, ransom and the status of the prisoner of war; 2. Princes, masters and prisoners; 3. Status and politics in Lancastrian Normandy; 4. The process of ransoming (I) from capture to captivity; 5. The practice of ransoming (II) the price of freedom; 6. Merchants, banking and trade; 7. Assistance to prisoners I: vassals and subjects - the end of customary aids?; 8. Assistant to prisoners II: kings and princes - first or last resort?; 9. Assistance to prisoners III: the social circle of the prisoner; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: R. My Amb Hl, Raemy Ambeuhl, Remy Ambuhl, Rémy Ambühl, Ambuhl Remy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9781107010949
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01094-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, France, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), HISTORY / Military / Medieval, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Prisoners of War, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval warfare (predating gunpowder warfare)