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2. Derek Pearsall, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography, Blackwell Critical Biographies 1, gen. ed. Claude Rawso (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
3. Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989)
4. See John Barnie, War in Medieval English Society: Social Values in the Hundred Years War 1331–1399 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974), pp. 20–21
5. See Andrew Ayton, “The English Army at Crécy,” in The Battle of Crécy, 1346, ed. Andrew Ayton and Philip Preston. Warfare in History (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2005), pp. 215–224