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The conflict between England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent advances in scholarship, this book places the Anglo-French wars into a range of wider contexts, such as politics, the home front, the church, and chivalry. Adopting a sustained comparative approach, with attention paid to both England and France, The Hundred Years War Revisited provides a clear and comprehensive synthesis of the major trends in research on the Hundred Years War.
Concise and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of medieval history.
List of contents
Introduction, Anne Curry.- 1. English Politics and the Hundred Years War, Gwilym Dodd.- 2. French Politics during the Hundred Years War, Graeme Small.- 3. Financing the Hundred Years War, Tony K. Moore and Adrian R. Bell.- 4. The Hundred Years War and the Church, Rory Cox.- 5. The Hundred Years War 'at Home', Laura Crombie.- 6. Chivalry and the Hundred Years War, Andy King.- 7. First-Hand Accounts and Reports of Warfare, Craig Taylor.- 8. Navies and Maritime Warfare, Andrew Ayton and Craig Lambert.- 9. Armies, Gary P. Baker.
About the author
Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of several books, including Agincourt: A New History (2005) and Henry V: From Playboy Prince to Warrior King (2015). She is also the editor of numerous titles, such as The Battle of Agincourt (2015; with Malcolm Mercer) and The Agincourt Companion (2015; with Daniel Spencer, Thom Richardson and Peter Hoskins).
A former President of the Historical Association, and a Trustee of the Royal Armouries, she is currently Chair of The Battlefields Trust and Upper Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fletchers.
GRAEME SMALL is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, UK.Andy King is Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, UK.
Summary
The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent advances in scholarship, this book places the Anglo-French wars into a range of wider contexts, such as politics, the home front, the church, and chivalry. Adopting a sustained comparative approach, with attention paid to both England and France, The Hundred Years War Revisited provides a clear and comprehensive synthesis of the major trends in research on the Hundred Years War.
Concise and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of medieval history.
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This volume will be immensely useful to introduce students to the work of previous generations of historians, expertly sketching out and contextualising commonly agreed insights but also throwing light on scholarly disagreements and newly emerging areas of research. – Godfried Croenen, University of Liverpool, UK
