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reforms. The most significant, Alain Chartier’s Quadrilogue invectif (1422), took France to task for failing to resist the conquering Henry V, and allowed Peuple to speak of its poverty, the Nobility to lament its decline and the Clergy to outline a plan for national revival. THE MIDDLE AGES 21 These developments reflect a change in the concept of history. Knowledge of the past was derived initially from Latin sources and the first histories were written by monks, like Raoul Glaber (c.950–