The Fourteenth Century Soldier: More Chaucer's Knight or Medieval Career?
- Author / Editor
- Bell, Adrian R.
The Fourteenth Century Soldier: More Chaucer's Knight or Medieval Career?
- Published
- John France, ed. Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of a Conference Held at University of Wales, Swansea, 7th-9th July 2005. Smithsonian History of Warfare, no. 47 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 301-15.
- Series
- Smithsonian History of Warfare, no. 47.
- Description
- Bell analyzes the military record of 5,600 soldiers from Chaucer's lifetime to discover how many had records of military service similar to the experience of Chaucer's Knight. It was not uncommon for English soldiers to serve as mercenaries in locales such as Italy and Prussia. Most surprising is that the Knight is not credited with service in the Hundred Years' War, an omission that was "very unusual" for a soldier of this time.
- Contributor
- France, John, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of a Conference Held at University of Wales, Swansea, 7th-9th July 2005.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.