Reply To: Hundred Years War

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Jason Jewell
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Hi, John. If you are looking for primary sources, the most famous is Froissart’s “Chronicles,” a 14th-century work which provides a lot of information about the first half of the Hundred Years War.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/froissart-full.asp

Desmond Seward writes engaging works on medieval history. His book on the Hundred Years War is focused on the military and political stuff in a chronological format: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140283617/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140283617&linkCode=as2&tag=thewesttrad-20

If you want a book that is more topically organized, the volume on the war in the Cambridge Medieval Textbook series has dedicated sections to things like taxation: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521319234/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521319234&linkCode=as2&tag=thewesttrad-20

Rothbard discusses the politics of the 14th century very briefly in his History of Economic Thought as well.