Abstract
During the Hundred Years' War, village communities erected collective fortifications to protect their property and people from the armed bands (routiers) who roamed the countryside to feed themselves (goods, food, livestock robberies, murders, etc.). Using the example of three neighbouring villages in the Gard department (France), this article sheds light on these fortifications through the study of the remains and the contribution of unpublished texts from the XIVth and XVth centuries, which address various issues (financing, construction techniques, contractor's remuneration, plots’demarcation, fortifications dimensions and layout, etc.).
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