A Knight's Tale

<p>Today we travel back to the Middle Ages with A Knight's Tale! Join us for a discussion of The Black Prince, jousting tournaments, the extreme awfulness of the central love story, free companies, Chaucer, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Free Companies:</p> <p>Maurice Keen, "The Hundred Years War," BBC 17 February 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/hundred_years_war_01.shtml</p> <p>Percy, Sarah V. "This Gun's for Hire: A New Look at an Old Issue." International Journal 58, no. 4 (2003): 721-36. Accessed September 29, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203894.</p> <p>Marvin, Laurence W. "Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle Ages." In Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History, edited by Dwyer Philip G. and Ryan Lyndall, 50-62. Berghahn Books, 2012. Accessed September 29, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qcw1p.10.<br /> <br /> Justine Firnhaber-Baker, "Techniques of Seigneurial War in the Fourteenth Century," Journal of Medieval History 36:1 (March 2010): 90-103. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2009.10.001<br /> <br /> Cuvelier, and Nigel Bryant. "War in Normandy." In The Song of Bertrand Du Guesclin, 85-130. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvd58s78.10.</p> <p>Beauregard, Erving Edward, "The Free Companies in the hundred years' war," Masters Thesis (1944). https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1306</p> <p>Jousting Audiences:</p> <p>Murray, Alan V., and Karen Watts, eds. The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'Armes, 1100-1600. Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv105bbwd.</p> <p>BARBER, RICHARD. "Chivalry in the Tournament and Pas D’Armes." In A Companion to Chivalry, edited by JONES ROBERT W. and COSS PETER, 119-38. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvb937g7.12.</p> <p>BENNETT, MATTHEW. "Manuals of Warfare and Chivalry." In A Companion to Chiva