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The Origin of the Long-Bow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Henry S. Pancoast
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There is no doubt about the effectiveness of the long-bow in the hands of a skilful archer. There is no doubt that the skilful employment of the archers, armed with this formidable weapon, contributed largely to the English victories in the Hundred Years War. The long-bow, peculiarly adapted to the foot-soldier rather than the knight or the horseman, seems a fitting national weapon for a nation which, even in the Middle Ages, showed a more democratic temper than did the great Continental powers.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 44 , Issue 1: American Bibliography for 1928 , March 1929 , pp. 217 - 228
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1929

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Footnotes

1

The present paper was written by Dr. Pancoast just before his death on March 25, 1928. It has been prepared for the press by his friend, Percy V. D. Shelly.

References

Note 2 in page 217 N.E.D. “Long-bow.”

Note 3 in page 218 History of the English People, I. 421.

Note 4 in page 218 Introductory History of England, I. 235.

Note 5 in page 218 Ritson, II. xx. 75. “With a long bow they shot a fat doe.”

Note 6 in page 219 History of England, pp. 210-211.

Note 7 in page 219 Wales. Home University Library, pp. 102-103.

Note 8 in page 219 Social England, I. 411.

Note 9 in page 220 Wales. Story of the Nations Series, p. 237 ff.

Note 10 in page 221 Itin., chap. IV. p. 50. Dent's ed.