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“Christine de Pizan argued passionately for the need to resolve the conflict, stating that ‘Every kingdom divided in itself will be destroyed, and every city or house divided against its own good cannot endure.”
― David Green, The Hundred Years War: A People's History

“The crossbow would develop into a highly formidable weapon over the course of the Hundred Years War, but at this stage of its evolution it proved no match for the English longbow.”
― David Green, The Hundred Years War: A People's History

“During the Hundred Years War financial transactions might be conducted in money of account (a conventional measure of value) or money of payment (i.e. the coins in which payment was actually made).”
― David Green, The Hundred Years War: A People's History

“According to Le Baker, French crossbows at Poitiers did inflict considerable damage: Chronicon, 151. For a cautionary note regarding the disparity between longbows and crossbows, see R. Mitchell, ‘The Longbow–Crossbow Shootout at Crécy (1346): Has the “Rate of Fire Commonplace” been Overrated?’, The Hundred Years War, II: Different Vistas, ed. L. J. A. Villalon and D. J. Kagay (Leiden, 2008), 233–57.”
― David Green, The Hundred Years War: A People's History