The Origins of the Hundred Years War The Angevin Legacy 1250-1340

by Vale, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780198206200
• ISBN10: 0198206208
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-31
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

In this important study of Anglo-French relations in the century before the Hundred Years War, Vale examines the legacy of continental rule bequeathed by the Angevin kings of England to their Plantagenet successors. He explores the sources of Anglo-French tension that ultimately led to the breakdown of feudal and diplomatic relations between the two greatest powers in western Europe.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xv	(2)
List of Plates	xvii	(2)
Preface	xix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xxi	(1)
A Note on Currency	xxii
1 Introduction	1	(8)
2 Anglo-French Civilization	9	(39)
2.1 The Legacy of the Angevin Empire
2.2 The World of the Courts
2.3 A Common Culture
3 Anglo-French Tensions	48	(32)
3.1 Homage for Aquitaine
3.2 The Plantagenet Presence in France, 1259--1294
4 Politics and Society in Aquitaine -- I: The Nobility	80	(60)
4.1 The Structure and Political Behaviour of the Gascon Nobility
4.2 Private War
5 Politics and Society in Aquitaine -- II: Town and Countryside	140	(35)
5.1 Economic Activity and Social Texture
5.2 New Settlements
5.3 Faction and Conflict
6 Anglo-French Conflict	175	(52)
6.1 The Causes of War in 1294
6.2 War, Finance and Military Organization
6.3 The Aftermath of War
7 The Coming of the Hundred Years War	227	(39)
7.1 The War of St Sardos and its Consequences
7.2 The Defence of Aquitaine, 1326--1340
8 Epilogue	266	(4)
Appendix I Family Trees	270	(11)
Appendix II The Costs of the Gascon War	281	(2)
Appendix III Maps	283	(5)
Bibliography	288	(5)
Index	303