Freebooter
Maurice Keen: The diabolical Sir John Hawkwood, 5 May 2005
Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman
by Frances Stonor Saunders.
Faber, 366 pp., £17.99, November 2004,9780571219087 Show More
by Frances Stonor Saunders.
Faber, 366 pp., £17.99, November 2004,
“... social problems of the period. The confused fighting in the Hundred Years War between England and France offered adventurers eager for gain a fine apprenticeship in fighting and plundering, and spread freebooter companies across much of the French kingdom, reducing rich provinces to economic ruin in the course of the 1340s, 1350s and 1360s. Italy offered even ... ”