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Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crécy?

by Richard Wadge
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781803996912
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: History Press
  • Publisher Imprint: History Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 284
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 320 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / Wales, Military / Medieval, and Europe / Medieval

How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary Englishman. He had his own popular literature that left us a romantic version of the lives and activities of outlaws and poachers such as Robin Hood.

This remarkable development began 150 years after the traumatic events of the Norman Conquest transformed the English way of life, in ways that were almost never to the benefit of the English. This book is the first account of 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.

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) and 'The Longbowmen of the Vijayanagaran Empire' for the; Journal of the Society of Archer Antiquaries, amongst other articles. He lives in Oxford.

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