Joseph Henson
History 4A
John Corbally
11/21/2006
Different Loyalties For Different Classes
Around the turn of the 14th century, the seedlings of the modern Western European nations were already in place, most notably in France and England. Despite having a king, who ruled over an area nominally bound together by a national identity and name, these were still nations with strong local lords, unclear boundaries, and mixed allegiances. The Hundred Years War is often simplified as being fought solely between France and England, yet really many more people, fighting with a host of different loyalties in mind, took part in the conflict, merely choosing one side or the other for their own purposes. All did claim loyalty to a king and a national identity, but varied on the differences between these two loyalties. Froissart's Chronicles displayed that for the nobles, loyalty to the king and national identity were virtually synonymous, whereas for peasants national identity was......

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