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.

Les sources documentaires relatives à la guerre de Cent Ans sont nombreuses et variées. Pourtant, compte tenu de leur nombre, peu d’entre elles ont été publiées et encore moins traduites. Les auteurs de ce volume, qui célèbre le travail du professeur Anne Curry, proposent une large sélection de ces sources, éditées et traduites, et accompagnées d’analyses et de commentaires détaillés, par des experts en la matière. Elles comprennent des contrats, des inventaires, des lettres de grâce, des dépositions et des testaments, et jettent une lumière nouvelle sur toute une série de thèmes, tels que le recrutement, la violence, les rançons et la paix, la poudre à canon, la navigation, la tenue vestimentaire et les chevaux errants. Un essai introductif offre une perspective plus large sur les sources de la guerre de Cent Ans, en adoptant un point de vue comparatif des deux côtés de la Manche.

Table des matières :

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. McKenzie

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

Informations pratiques :

Documenting Warfare. Records of the Hundred Years War, Edited and Translated in Honour of Anne Curry, éd. Rémy Ambühl, Andy King, Wppdbridge, The Boydell Press, 2024 ; 1 vol. 428 p. (Warfare in History, 54). ISBN : 978-1-83765-024-8. Prix GBP 110,00.

Source : Boydell and Brewer