The Battle of Agincourt

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Pub. Date: 2000-12-01
Publisher(s): Boydell Pr
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Summary

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 'Agincourt! Agincourt! Know ye not Agincourt?' 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 and French consciousness, respectively as either one of the greatest military successes ever, or as the 'accursed day'. 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 'upon Saint Crispin's day'.ANNE CURRY is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of Department, University of Reading.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 English and French armies

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
x
Preface with source acknowledgements and note on translations xi
General Editor's Preface xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1(8)
Fifteenth-Century Chronicle Sources
9(186)
Chronicles written in England
22(77)
The Gesta Henrici Quinti (c. 1417, Latin)
22(18)
Liber Metricus de Henrico Quinto (Metrical Life of Henry V) (c. 1418, Latin)
40(8)
Thomas Elmham
St Albans Chronicle (c. 1420--22, Latin)
48(5)
Thomas Walsingham
Vita Henrici Quinti (c. 1438, Latin)
53(10)
Tito Livio Frulovisi
Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti (c. 1446--49, Latin)
63(12)
Pseudo Elmham
De Illustribus Henricis (c. 1446--53, Latin)
75(3)
John Capgrave
Chronicle (1457, 1464, Middle English and Latin)
78(7)
John Hardyng
The Chronicle of Peter Basset (1459, French)
85(4)
The Brut (1430, 1436--37, 1460--70, Middle English)
89(7)
The London Chronicles (later fifteenth century, Middle English)
96(3)
Chronicles written in France
99(96)
The Religieux (Monk) of Saint-Denis, Histoire de Charles VI (c. 1415--22, Latin)
99(11)
Geste des noble francois (?late 1420s, French)
110(2)
Chronique normande (?early 1430s, French)
112(2)
Pierre Cochon
Chronique anonyme du regne de Charles VI (?early 1430s, French)
114(2)
Memoires de Pierre de Fenin (?1430s, French)
116(4)
Chronique de Perceval de Cagny (late 1430s, French)
120(2)
Chronique de Ruisseauville (?1420s--1430s, French)
122(6)
Histoire de Charles VI, roy de France (1430--1440s, French)
128(7)
Jean Juvenal des Ursins
Jean Waurin and Jean Le Fevre (1444--1460s)
135(36)
Enguerran Monstrelet
Chronique des ducs de Brabant (?early to mid-1440s, Latin)
171(4)
Edmond de Dynter
Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris (?1449, French)
175(3)
Le Heraut Berry (the Berry Herald) (?1450s, French)
178(4)
Chronique d'Arthur de Richemont (1458--mid-1460s, French)
182(3)
Chronique de Normandie (1460s, French)
185(2)
Histoire de Charles VII (1471--72, Latin)
187(4)
Thomas Basin
Chronique d'Antonio Morosini (?1430s, Italian)
191(4)
Sixteenth-Century Historians in England
195(65)
The First English Life of Henry the Fifth (1513, English)
203(17)
The New Chronicles of England and France (1516, English)
220(3)
Robert Fabyan
Anglica Historia (1513, published 1534, Latin)
223(7)
Polydore Vergil
The Union of the Two Illustre Families of Lancaster and York (1542, English)
230(14)
Edward Hall
The Chronicles of England (1580, English) republished in expanded form as The Annales of England (1592, 1601, English)
244(5)
John Stow
Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1586--87, English)
249(11)
Raphael Holinshed
The Contemporary Reception of the Battle and Development of the Literary Tradition
260(110)
England
261(71)
News of the battle
261(2)
Possible newsletter circulating in England after the battle (Latin)
263(2)
Henry V's return and the entry to London
265(1)
The Brut 1377--1437, British Library, Harley MS 53 (narrative written c. 1437, completed 1452--53, Middle English)
266(1)
Vita Henrici Quinti (c. 1438, Latin)
267(1)
Tito Livio Frulovisi
St Albans Chronicle (c. 1420--22, Latin)
268(1)
Thomas Walsingham
Parliament
268(1)
The roll of the parliament held at Westminster on Monday after the Feast of All Saints, in the third year of King Henry the Fifth since the Conquest (4 November 1415, Latin)
269(2)
Convocation
271(1)
Anonymous letter possibly related to convocation of 1415 (Latin)
272(2)
The cult of saints and commemoration of the battle
274(4)
Latin jingle in The Chronicle of Adam of Usk (c. 1416--30, Latin)
278(1)
Latin jingle and gloss in The Chronicle of Mont-St-Michel (?1468, Latin)
279(1)
Early literary responses in England
280(1)
Latin poem in The Chronicle of Adam of Usk (c. 1416-30, Latin)
280(1)
Epigram on the Battle of Agincourt (undated, Latin)
281(1)
The Agincourt carol and other carols
281(6)
Other poems in Middle English
287(1)
`Poem on the battle of Agincourt' (c. 1443, Middle English)
288(4)
`The Battle of Agincourt' (?1440s, Middle English)
292(6)
Maniere de langage (?1415, French)
298(2)
Later literary responses in England - the ballad
300(2)
`Agincourt, or the English Bowman's Glory'
302(2)
Shakespeare's Henry V, and the anonymous play The Famous Victories
304(17)
The Battaile of Agincourt (1627) and the Ballad of Agincourt
321(11)
Michael Drayton
France
332(22)
The register of the parlement of Paris (3 and 29 October 1415, French)
334(2)
The Religieux (Monk) of Saint-Denis, Histoire de Charles VI (c. 1415--22, Latin)
336(5)
Epistre de la prison de vie humaine (1416--18, French)
341(3)
Christine de Pizan
Livre des quatre dames (1416--18, French)
344(6)
Alain Chartier
Le pastoralet (c. 1422-25, French)
350(3)
Charles, duke of Orleans, Ballade LXXXIV (1420s--1430s, French)
353(1)
Anonymous poem in La Chronique d'Enguerran de Monstrelet (c. 1444, French)
354(1)
Poem by Robert Blondel (1420--22, Latin and French)
355(2)
Le Jouvencel (1461--66, French)
357(13)
Interpretations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
370(36)
Narrative histories from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century
371(10)
Battlefield and commemoration
381(4)
The search for sources: Sir Harris Nicolas, Sir Joseph Hunter and J.H. Wylie
385(9)
Military histories, military men
394(8)
Recent studies
402(4)
Administrative Records
406(64)
The English army
406(51)
The `Agincourt Roll'
407(1)
The administration of the English army
408(9)
Personnel and organisation
417(6)
Sources for the campaign
423(3)
Accounts drawn up after the campaign
426(8)
Other administrative records
434(2)
Indenture (29 April 1415, French)
436(2)
Warrant for issue (29 April 1415, French)
438(1)
Issue roll (6 June 1415, Latin)
439(1)
Sub-indenture (1 May 1415, French)
439(2)
Letter of Henry V to the mayor and aldermen of the city of London (22 September 1415, French)
441(1)
Extracts from the records of the city of Bordeaux (French)
442(4)
Letter from William Bardolf, lieutenant of Calais, to John, duke of Bedford, keeper of England (7 October 1415, French)
446(1)
Licence to return home from Harfleur (5 October 1415, French)
447(1)
Discussions and decisions concerning the settlement of accounts for the Agincourt campaign (6 March 1417, French)
448(1)
Petition of Thomas Hostell (temp. Henry VI, Middle English)
449(1)
Petition of Thomas Strickland (1424, French)
450(1)
Case in Chancery concerning prisoners taken at Agincourt (?temp. Henry V or VI, French)
451(1)
Writ concerning cote armours (2 July 1417, Latin)
451(1)
Statute concerning payment for the Agincourt campaign (1423, French)
452(1)
Petition to parliament of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and Thomas, earl of Salisbury, concerning payment for the Agincourt campaign (October 1427, French)
453(4)
The French army
457(13)
Succession dispute (1460, French)
466(1)
Petition of Jeanne de Gaillouvel (1416, French)
467(1)
The French plan of battle (1415, French)
468(2)
Conclusion 470

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