Latest title, destined to be the Agincourt sourcebook for years to come,
in the Warfare in History: Sources and Interpretations series.Accessible collections of
primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and
teachers of the subject will find Curry's volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies
and teaching aids.FRENCH HISTORY "e;Agincourt! Agincourt! Know ye not
Agincourt?"e; So began a ballad of around 1600. Since the event itself [25 October
1415], the great military engagement has occupied a special place in both English andFrench
consciousness, respectively as either one of the greatest military successes ever, or as the
"e;accursed day"e;. Much ink has been spilt on the battle but do we really
know Agincourt? Not since Harris Nicolas's History of the Battle of Agincourt (1827-33) has
there been a full attempt to survey the sources until now: this book brings together, in
translation and with commentary, English and French narrative accounts and literary works of
the fifteenth century. It also traces the treatment of the battle in sixteenth-century
English histories and in the literary representations of, amongst others, Shakespeare and
Drayton. After examining how later historians interpreted the battle, it concludes with the
first full assessment of the extremely rich administrative records which survive for the
armies which fought "e;upon Saint Crispin's day"e;. ANNE CURRY is Professor
of Medieval Historyat the University of Southampton. CONTENTS Twenty-six chronicle sources,
English and French Accounts from six sixteenth-century English historians Twenty-one records
of contemporary reception of the battle, and the development of the literary tradition, in
England and France Summaries of interpretations from the eighteenth to the twentieth
centuries Excerpts from eighteen administrative records relating to the Englishand French
armies

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• Publication Date: October 5, 2000
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