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The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
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This lecture asks what weapons people owned in Henry VIII's England and whether they knew how to use them, some of its evidence drawn from coroners' inquests into accidents with bows, guns and swords.
Exhortations to manly valour egged soldiers on to fight, but as in most wars before penicillin, more died of disease than from enemy action.

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The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
People
Steven Gunn
Keywords
arms
recruitment
Medicine
disease
henry viii
Department: Faculty of History
Date Added: 12/10/2016
Duration: 00:54:18

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