Archery in Medieval England

Who Were the Bowmen of Crécy?

Richard Wadge

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HISTORY PRESS
01 June 2024

History; British & Irish history; Medieval history; Military history; Weapons & equipment; Archery

How the Medieval English developed their battle-winning archery skills.

How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary Englishman. He had his own popular literature that left us a romantic version of the lives and activities of outlaws and poachers such as Robin Hood.

This remarkable development began 150 years after the traumatic events of the Norman Conquest transformed the English way of life, in ways that were almost never to the benefit of the English. This book is the first account of the way ordinary men used bows and arrows in their day-to-day lives, and the way that their skills became recognised by the kings of England as invaluable in warfare.

AUTHOR: Richard Wadge is an organiser of the European Traditional Archery Society shoot in England. He is the author or the best-selling Arrowstorm: the World of the Archer in the Hundred Years War for Spellmount. He provided Historical Appendices in P Bickerstaffe's, Medieval War Bows: a Bowyer's Thoughts. He wrote 'Medieval Arrowheads from Oxfordshire' for the journal Oxoniensia (a peer-reviewed journal) and 'The Longbowmen of the Vijayanagaran Empire' for the; Journal of the Society of Archer Antiquaries, amongst other articles. He lives in Oxford.

22 b/w illustrations

By: Richard Wadge
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781803996912
ISBN 10: 1803996919
Publication Date: 01 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Richard Wadge is an organiser of the European Traditional Archery Society shoot in England. He is the author or the best-selling Arrowstorm: the World of the Archer in the Hundred Years War for Spellmount. He provided Historical Appendices in P Bickerstaffe’s, Medieval War Bows: a Bowyer’s Thoughts. He wrote ‘Medieval Arrowheads from Oxfordshire’ for the journal Oxoniensia (a peer-reviewed journal) and ‘The Longbowmen of the Vijayanagaran Empire’ for the; Journal of the Society of Archer Antiquaries, amongst other articles. He lives in Oxford.