Hundred Years War Revisited

Anne Curry is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK, a past president of The Historical Association, and author of many books on the Anglo-French wars of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She is particularly well known for her researches on Agincourt and on the armies of the period. Her publications include The Battle of Agincourt. Sources and Interpretations (Boydell), Agincourt. A New History (History Press), Bosworth 1485. A Battlefield Rediscovered (with Glenn Foard, Oxbow), and The Soldier in Later Medieval England (with Adrian Bell, Andy King and David Simpkin, OUP).

• Introduction, Anne Curry1. English Politics and the Hundred Years War, Gwilym Dodd2. French Politics during the Hundred Years War, Graeme Small3. Financing the Hundred Years War, Tony K. Moore and Adrian R. Bell4. The Hundred Years War and the Church, Rory Cox5. The Hundred Years War 'at Home', Laura Crombie6. Chivalry and the Hundred Years War, Andy King7. First-Hand Accounts and Reports of Warfare, Craig Taylor8. Navies and Maritime Warfare, Andrew Ayton and Craig Lambert9. Armies, Gary P. Baker.

From the introduction, which contains a succinct summary of the main events and historiographical issues of the Hundred Years War, and through each successive chapter, this thematically arranged volume is an indispensable resource for scholars and students seeking an accessible guide to one of medieval history’s most memorable military conflicts.