Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. A Great Romance: Chivalry and War in Barbour’s Bruce 1
7. Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (1301–1330): A Study of Personal Loyalty 27
8. The Black Death and Mortality: A Reassessment 49
9. War, the Church, and English Men-at-Arms 73
10. Power Corrupts! An Anglo-Norman Poem on the Abuse of Power 95
11. National Identities and the Hundred Years War 115
12. Isabella de Coucy, daughter of Edward III: The Exception Who Proves the Rule 131
13. Natural Law and the Right of Self-Defence According to John of Legnano and John Wyclif 149
14. Medieval Chroniclers as War Correspondents during the Hundred Years War: The Earl of Arundel’s Naval Campaign of 1387 171