Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages
Documentary sources for the Hundred Years War are many and varied, yet given the number that exist, comparatively few have been published, and even fewer translated. The contributors to this volume, celebrating the work of Professor Anne Curry, provide a wide selection of these sources, edited and translated, and accompanied with detailed analysis and commentaries, by experts in the field. They include contracts, inventories, letters of grace, depositions and wills, and shed new light across a range of themes, from recruitment, violence, ransoms and peace, to gunpowder, shipping, dress, and stray horses. An introductory essay gives a wider perspective on the sources for the Hundred Years War, taking a comparative view from both sides of the Channel.
The chapter ‘Soldier and Speaker: Sir Richard Waldegrave’s Interactions with the Court of Chivalry and the Peasants’ Revolt’ by Adrian R. Bell, Herbert Eiden and Helen Killick is available below as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY−NC−ND. The Open Access version of this chapter was funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/S011765/1)
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Preface
Timeline
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Documenting France and England at War (1337-1453): Comparative Perspectives
Rémy Ambühl and Andy King
1. Lordship and Garrisons on the Anglo-Scottish Marches: The Custody of Lochmaben Castle, 1346 –
Andy King
2. Mure Causit’s Castles: Female Inheritance, Mercenaries, and Royal Government in the Mid-Fourteenth Century –
Justine Firnhaber-Baker
3. It’s Not What You Use but The Way That You Use It: The Role of Lionel of Clarence’s Arms Armour, and Equipment in Ireland, 1361-9 –
Malcolm Mercer
4. A Licence to Conquest: The Indenture of War between Sir Robert Knolles and Edward III, 1370 –
Rémy Ambühl
5. A Ship and its Owner in War and Peace: Geoffrey Starling and the
Magdaleyn of Ipswich, 1372-5 –
Andrew Ayton
6. Enguerrand de Coucy, Princess Isabella and the Order of the Garter: Evidence from a Great Wardrobe Livery Roll –
Chloë R. Mc Kenzie
7. The Ransom Agreements between Juan I de Castile and Florimont de Lesparre, 1381-2 –
Guilhem Pépin
8. Soldier and Speaker: Sir Richard Waldegrave’s Interactions with the Court of Chivalry and the Peasants’ Revolt –
Adrian R. Bell, Herbert Eiden and Helen Killick
9. Preparing to Invade England: The Missions of Jean de Blaisy to the Duchy of Brittany in 1386 and 1387 –
Michael Jones
10. Rape in Wartime: Welsh Mercenaries in the Kingdom of France, 1385 –
Valérie Toureille
11. The Testament of William, Lord Botreaux, and the Costs of the Hundred Years War, 1415-53 –
Michael Hicks
12. After the Battle of Agincourt: A Horse Auction in the Town of Aire, 1416 –
Bertrand Schnerb
13. The League of Aire, 1418 –
Pierre Courroux
14. Crime and Non-Punishment in Lancastrian Normandy: The Interesting Case of William de Hallifax, Esquire, 1420 –
David Simpkin
15. A Grant of Arms in an Age of Heraldic and Linguistic Transition –
Adrian Ailes and Marianne Ailes
16. Philip the Good’s Appointment as King’s Lieutenant in Anglo-Burgundian France, 1429 –
Aleksandr Lobanov
17. Wildfire and Incendiary Gunshot: A Demonstration by German Gunners for Henry VI in 1438 –
Dan Spencer
18. Taking Earl Rivers to Gascony: The Transport Fleet that Never Sailed, 1450-1 –
Craig Lambert
Anne Curry, Medieval Historian
Michael Jones (with a note by Tony Pollard)
Anne Curry and the History of Medieval Normandy: A French Perspective
Véronique Gazeau
Bibliography of the Major Works of Anne Curry, 1979-2023
Compiled by Michael Jones and Andy King
Index
About the author
ANDY KING is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK.
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