Nominal peace treaties did not stop the belligerents from preparing for the next campaign. Agents rushed to arms dealers as soon as a truce began, turning the war into a long market for finance and weapons. Banking clans in Italy, the Low Countries, and German lands profited from lending, while makers of new weapons could also do well. Recurring mobilization made the Hundred Years War an economic system as well as a sequence of battles.
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Truces sustained the Hundred Years War's arms market
Intermittent peace treaties encouraged rearmament, enriching banking networks and weapon suppliers across Europe.