Agincourt in Context: War on Land and Sea

by Rémy Ambühl (Editor), Craig Lambert (Editor)

This book investigates the Battle of Agincourt--which continues to be of immense national and international interest--as well as the wider conduct and organisation of war in the late Middle Ages. In England, Shakespeare's Henry V ensured that the battle holds a place in the English national consciousness, and through the centuries that followed the story of Henry's famous victory was used to galvanise English national spirit in times of war. In France, the immediate impact of the battle was that it helped to galvanise French national awareness in response to an external enemy. This book showcases new research into Agincourt and the wider issues of military recruitment, naval logistics, gunpowder and siege warfare, and the conduct of war. It also takes a wider European perspective on the events of 1415 by including research on Portuguese military organisation at the time of Agincourt. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.

140 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2020

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of eight essays originally given as a papers commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt and later published in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History. Of the eight, four concern themselves with Henry V’s Agincourt campaign, while three others deal with the wider context of the Hundred Years. The eighth essay focuses on Portugal’s “military landscape” in 1415. All of them are interesting and worthwhile reading but the reader will likely find some more relevant to their own interests than others. For me, these were the articles by Rémy Ambühl and Andy King.