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23 WYCLIF ON INDIVIDUAL SALVATION: q. Trevelyan, 141.

24 NO ONE HAD ENTERED PARADISE: q. Huizinga, Waning, 29.

Chapter 17—Coucy’s Rise

1 KING “SORROWED LONG”: Gr. Chrons., q. Delachenal, V, 20.

2 FF, CHARLES OF NAVARRE’S TREASON AND PLOTS: Chron. J. & C., II, 286 ff., and documents in Secousse; Coville, 246–47; Delachenal, V, 180–218.

3 FOIX, “IMPETUOUS PASSIONS”: q. Tarbé in notes to Machaut, xix. AFFAIR OF GASTON: Chron. C6, I, 365; also Froissart; and Tarbé, op cit.

4 NORMANDY CAMPAIGN: KL, IX, 56, 61–63, 77–78.

5 COUCY AND CLISSON: Lefranc, 189, 270. COMRADESHIP OF BROTHERHOOD-IN-ARMS: see Keen, Laws, 138.

6 CLISSON’S CAREER: Lefranc, 24–37, 58–68, 132–34.

7 “ALWAYS IN PERFECT HARMONY”: ibid., 270. ASSASSINATION OF OWEN OF WALES: Froissart, Berners ed., III, 15.

8 POLICY ON BRITTANY and TRIAL OF MONTFORT: Moranvillé, Mercier, 76–81; Delachenal, V, 242–45.

9 COUCY AS A “PEER OF FRANCE”: Froissart says specifically, in connection with Coucy’s campaign in Italy in 1372–74, “et li uns des xii pers”: KL, VII, 419. On the somewhat elastic nature of the twelve French peers, see Bloch, Feudal, 333–35; Lot & Fawtier, 297, n. 1.

10 KING’S VISIT TO COUCY: Chron. J. & C., III, 215; Lacaille, thèse, 59; Moranvillé, Mercier, 70–72, 319.

11 DESCHAMPS: Coville, 401, 407–9; Gaston Raynaud, 27; intro. and notes to Queux edition of Deschamps’ works, vol. XI. BALLADE ON COUCY: Deschamps, I, 269 (Trans. B.T.). PURCHASE OF GREAT FIEFS: see Lewis, 191.

12 MARRIAGE NEGOTIATIONS: Lehoux, I, 439.

13 COUCY’S ORDER OF THE CROWN: Deschamps, Queux ed., II, 35 (on the twelve qualities of the crown), and IV, 115. Duplessis, 89; Zurlauben, Enguerrand VII, 183.

14 JOHN PHILPOT: Chron. Angl., q. Barnie, 108–9; McKisack, 403.

15 REVOLT OF GHENT, “ON THE FOLLIES OF PRINCES”: q. Hutton.

16ff. OPPRESSION AND UPRISING IN LANGUEDOC, and PUNISHMENT OF MONTPELLIER: Chron. J. & C., II, 365–76; Delachenal, V, chap. 6.

17 “KILL ALL THE RICH!”: q. Mollat & Wolff, 182. “CUT OPEN BODIES”: q. Delachenal, V, 303, n. 3.

18 ENGLISH TAX OF 1379: Trevelyan, 100–103. MISCALCULATION OF THE TAX BASE: it was derived from an estimate of the number of English parishes at 40,000–50,000 when in fact they numbered about 9,000, see Coulton, Five Centuries, III, 449.

19 ARUNDEL’S VOYAGE: Chron. Angl., q. Collis, 225–27, and DNB; Froissart, Berners ed., III, 11; Roncière, 65–66. HIS 52 SUITS OF CLOTHES: Baldwin, 74. COMMONS’ PROTEST AND GOVERNMENT’S REPLY: Jusserand, 124–25, from Parl. Rolls, 2 Rich. II.

20 “ALL THE WITTE OF THIS WORLDE”: B text, xiii, 173.

21 COUCY OFFERED constableship: KL, IX, 237–38; Lefranc, 211–12. SCOPE OF THE OFFICE: Vuatrin, 89–90; Lefranc, 230–31.

22 COUCY NAMED CAPT.-GEN. OF PICARDY and GIVEN MORTAIGNE: KL, IX, 243; Duchesne, 267; Duplessis, 91–92.

23 BUCKINGHAM EXPEDITION: KL, IX, 260–91; Chron. C6, I, 7. PREPARATIONS: Sherborne, EHR.

24 CLISSON ON THE ENGLISH: KL, VIII, 302. “THEY CAN BETTER LIVE IN WAR”: KL, XIV, 314.

25 DOCUMENTS ON COUCY’S MOVEMENTS: Luce-F, xcix, n. 8. lmmobilis quasi lapis: q. Coville, 264.

26 p. 362 ff, CHARLES v’s DEATHBED and THE PROBLEM OF TAXES: Coville in CMH, 265–66; Perroy, Hundred Years, 173–74; Delachenal, V, 408–10.

27 Songe du Vergier: q. Mirot, Urbaines, 6, n. 1. TEXT OF KING’S ORDINANCE: ibid., 4.

28 PRECEDENTS: Brown, “Taxation and Morality.”

29 “TO THEIR GREAT DISCOMFORT”: Anonimalle, q. Collis, 230.

Chapter 18—The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions

On the conditions, taxation, and sentiments of the working class, the chief sources used for this chapter are Mollat & Wolff, Ongles Bleues; Turner, “Economic Discontent”; Perroy, “Wage Labour”; Pirenne, Europe, 103–12; Boissonade, 303–7; Thompson, Econ. and Soc. Hist.; Carpentier, Ville, 220–21.

For the Ciompi: Mollat & Wolff, 144–62; Turner; Schevill, Florence, 277–83; contemporary texts in Brucker, Society, 233–39.

For the insurrections in France and associated events, the chief primary sources are: Chron. C6 by the Monk of St. Denis, vol. I (especially for Paris), and Chron. 4 Valois (especially for Rouen), plus Froissart