The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly ...

The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This volume is both a restatement of current interpretations of sea power in the middle ages and the Renaissance ... and Australia show ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

In the 14th century, power in Europe was largely in the hands of the aristocracy. Surprisingly, one-fifth of the rulers were ...