Arthur Bryant's The Age of Chivalry examines the history of England from 1272 to 1381, one of the most difficult and decisive centuries in English history. The Age of Chivalry deals with a fairly short period of time, but a very eventful one: the evolution of Parliament, the reform of the legal system, the conquest of Wales, the Scottish Wars of Independence, the first period of the Hundred Years' War, the triumph of the English bow at the battles of Crecy and Poitiers, the Black Death, Peasants' revolt led by Wat Tyler in 1381. In the book you can also get acquainted with the history of the church, architecture, poetry, education and trace the formation of the English language.