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Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers from the bottom margins of the
Romance of Alexander
The legend of Alexander the Great
Flanders, 1338-44AD. Bodleian Library, Ms. Bod. 264, Oxford
Archers & Crossbowmen.
 62v, lower margin. Archer hunting hares  88v, lower margin. Crossbowmen and archer  95r, left of lower margin. Crossbowmen hunting  156r, lower margin. Archers and Crossbowmen The archers are referenced on p.8, French Armies of the Hundred Years War by David Nicolle Archers with longbows in a Flemish manuscript of 1338-44; note the arrows carried in their belts. The bowmen of England were by no means the only ones to use longbows, but in most parts of western Europe archery was practised more for hunting than warfare. (Romance of Alexander, Bodleian Library, Ms. Bod. 264, Oxford) |