Book Review of In the Steps of the Black Prince: The Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356
Posted by William Young on November 15, 2012
Peter Hoskins. In the Steps of the Black Prince: The Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356. Warfare in History series. Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84383-611-7. Plates. Figures. Maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. xviii, 246. $90.00 (hardcover).
Peter Hoskins, a medieval military historian and former British Royal Air Force pilot, writes a fascinating study of Prince Edward’s (the Black Prince) chevauchées (mounted military expeditions) in 1355 and 1356. The Black Prince was Edward III of England’s eldest son, heir to the throne, and his lieutenant in Gascony. In preparing this study, the author walked over 1,300 miles retracing the steps (as much as possible) of the Black Prince and his Anglo-Gascon army.
Hoskins provides a brief discussion of the origins of the Hundred Years War and the first phase (Edwardian War) from 1337 to 1355. The Black Prince accompanied his father, Edward III, on the chevauchée from Normandy to Flanders in…
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