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13%OFFRichard Wadge - Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy? - 9780752465876 - V9780752465876
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Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy?

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Description for Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy? Hardback. How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? This book reveals the way ordinary men used bows and arrows in their day-to-day lives, and the way that their skills became recognised by the kings of England as invaluable in warfare. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.

Archery in Medieval England is an account of how archery developed amongst ordinary people in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest. In the 300 years after that traumatic event, Englishmen became such skilled archers that they could defeat the most heavily armoured noble knights in battle after battle – feats of arms unequalled by the combatants of any other European country. Here Richard Wadge describes how men used bows and arrows in their everyday lives in the centuries between the arrival of the Normans and the start of the 100 Years War in Edward III’s reign.

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Richard Wadge shows how the archer came to symbolise the spirit of the ordinary Englishman, how he became a forerunner of John Bull and how he remains part of the national identity even today.

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752465876
SKU
V9780752465876
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5

About Richard Wadge
RICHARD WADGE is an organiser of the European Traditional Archery Society shoot in England. He is the author or the best-selling Arrowstorm: the World of the Archer in the Hundred Years War for Spellmount. He provided Historical Appendices in P Bickerstaffe’s Medieval War Bows: a Bowyer’s Thoughts. He wrote ‘Medieval Arrowheads from Oxfordshire’ for the journal Oxoniensia (a peer-reviewed journal) ... Read more

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