The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations

Abstract

Part 1 Fifteenth-century chronicle sources: chronicles written in - the Henrici (c. 1417, Latin), Thomas Elmham, Liber Metricus de Henrico Quinto (Metrical Life of Henry V), (c. 1418, Latin), Thomas Walsingham, St Albans (c. 1420-22, Latin), Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici Quinti (c. 1438, Latin, Pseudo Elmham, Vita et Gesta Henrici (c. 1446-53, Latin), John Capgrave, De Illustribus Henricis (c. 1446-53, Latin), John Hardyng, (1457, 1464, Middle English and Latin), the Chronicle of Peter Basset (1449, French), the Brut (1430, 1436-37, 1460-70, Middle English), the London Chronicles (later 15th century, Middle English chronicles written in - Religieux (Monk) of Saint-Denis, Histoire de Charles (c. 1415-22, Latin), Geste de nobles francois (?late 1420s, French), Pierre Cochon, Chronique normande (?early 1430s, French), Chronique anonyme du reigne de Chales VI (?early 1430s, French), Memoires de Pierre de Fenin (?1430s, French), Chronique de Perceval de Cagny (late 1430s, French), Chronique de Ruisseauville (?1420s-1430s, French), Jean Juvenal des Ursins, Histoire de Charles VI, roy de France (1430-1440s, French), Enguerran Monstrelet, Jean Waurin and Jean Le Fevre (1444-1460s), Edmond de Dynter, Chronique des ducs de Brabant (?early to mid-1440s, Latin), Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris (?1449, French), Le Heraut Berry (the Berry Herald) (?1450s, French, Chronique d'Arthur de Richemont (1458-mid-1460s, French), Chronique de Normandie (1460s, French), Thomas Basin, Histoire de Charles VII (1471-72, Latin), Chronique d'Antonio Morosini )?1430s, Italian. Part 2 Sixteenth-century historians in England: The First English Life of Henry the Fifth (1513, English) Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of and France (1516, English) Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia (1513, published 1534, Latin) Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Illustre families of Lancaster and York (1542, English) John Stow, The Chronicles of England (1592, 1601, English) Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1586-87, English). Part 3 contemporary reception of the battle and development of the literary tradition: France. Part 4 Interpretations from the 18th to the 20th century. Part 5 Administartive records: English army the French army.(Part contents).