•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im-iLSDk92U•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN36kePwXYs&feature=related Weapons of 100 Years War
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B2JP0pIRDk&NR=1 Part of a Documentary
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98H2E9JWuY Henry V Film Clip of a muddy battle field. Bloody
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/agincourt.htm 100 Years War
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm Plague
For more information on Hus's life, read the short but informative article at http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/hus2.htm
5 comments:
The clip from Henry V was interesting because it portrayed the use of longbows by the English army against the French. The clip was impressive because it was an important battle scene depicted from a shakespearian perspective. It did a good job showing the emotions, such as the nerves of the British before using the longbows, as well as the confidence the French had in their traditional, "superior" fighting tactics.
The eyewitness page on the plague was very interesting. I liked how it explained how the disease formed and how the people reacted to it. It also went into the burials which the book did not talk about. It was a good review page for the chapter 12 test.
The eyewitness page about the Agincourt was interesting because it revealed things about the battle that the book may overlook. We all know that the English and their longbows dealt huge blows to the French army, but what we didn’t quite know were the conditions. The battlefield was less than ample for the French because it had rained the night before leaving the plane muddy and they were surrounded by woods. The French were easy picking for the English. The other page about the Black Plague was interesting because it talked about the social devastation and how family members would not even want to interact with each other due to the threat of disease. Overall the links will be an effective study tool in the future.
This clip about the long bowmen was quite intresting due to how it discredited the longbowmen of all of there mythical fighting ability. It basically said that the only reason they were valuable is there cheap and dipossable nature and their ruthless fighting style. This contridicts the previous hand outs read in class vouching for their powess in battle.
The recreation of the Battle of Agincourt was good. It, I think, was a play done by Shakespeare which he was know for making wars seem noble, great, and all that fun stuff. The documentary was was very interesting. It did a good job at describing the longbow and its advantages. Also the small things that surrounded the battle. Like who was there, which they used a spur to figure out that there were very rich nobles there.
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