A Soldiers’ Chronicle of the Hundred Years War (EPUB) von Anne Curry

A remarkable and very important unpublished chronicle written by two soldiers, covering in detail the English campaigns in France from 1415 to 1429. It lists many individuals who served in the war, and was written specifically for Sir John Fastolf, the English commander.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The M 9 chronicle and its authors
The chronicle manuscript and its scribe, Luket Nantron (Deborah Ellen Thorpe)
Peter Basset
Christopher Hanson
William Worcester
Team work

Chapter 2. The format and content of the M 9 chronicle
A work of two halves?
The English in the M 9 chronicle
The French in the M 9 chronicle
The lists

Chapter 3. The portrayal of war in the M 9 chronicle
The justification of war
Strategy and tactics
Battles
Sieges
Numbers and organisation
Bravery and cowardice
Oath taking and oath breaking
Conclusion

Chapter 4. French in fifteenth-century England: what linguistic choices? (Richard Ingham)
Indications of non-native authorship?
Central French and other continental varieties
The French of England
Linguistic analysis of the M 9 chronicle
i. Orthography and grammar
ii. Lexis and phraseology
Conclusions

Chapter 5. The post-medieval history of the chronicle and its use by the heralds
The immediate fate of the chronicle
Heralds and the M 9 chronicle
a. Walter Bellengier
b. Christopher Barker
Other heralds and the annotations within the M 9 chronicle
The use of the chronicle by Robert Glover

Chapter 6. The M 9 chronicle and the histories of the mid Tudor period
Edward Hall
Hall and the M 9 chronicle
Comparison of the M 9 chronicle and Hall'sUnion
The influence of Hall'sUnion
Shakespeare
The Basset problem

Chapter 7.'In the Mids of his Glory': the M 9 chronicle, 'A Mirror for Magistrates', and the tragedy of English imperialism (Scott Lucas)

The Edition of College of Arms MS M 9 folios 31r-66r
Editorial practices
Edition of the original text and its annotations
English translation, identifications and commentary
Appendix: Additional material by William Worcester bound into College of Arms MS M 9

Bibliography
Index