Title & Author:

Arms, armies, and fortifications in the Hundred Years War / edited by Anne Curry & Michael Hughes.

Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 1994.

Description:

xv, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The development of battle tactics in the Hundred Years War / Matthew Bennett -- English armies in the fourteenth century / Andrew Ayton -- English armies in the fifteenth century / Anne Curry -- The war in Aquitaine / Malcolm Vale -- The domestic response to the Hundred Years War / W.M. Ormrod -- War and fourteenth-century France / Michael Jones -- The fourteenth-century French raids on Hampshire and the Isle of Wight / Michael Hughes -- Coastal artillery fortification in England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / John R. Kenyon -- Artillery and the Hundred Years War : myth and interpretation / Robert D. Smith -- The longbow / Robert Hardy -- Winds of change? Ships and the Hundred Years War / Ian Friel -- English church monuments during the period of the Hundred Years War / Brian Kemp.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

From a practical start, a general review of battle tactics, the book turns to archival sources (at points enlisting computer analysis) to examine a number of basic issues. These cover the composition of the English army throughout the period, the management of affairs in Aquitaine together with Gascon reaction, the response in England at large to the war and the consequent propaganda and financial burdens, and (reviewing French work) the impact of warfare on local communities. Archaeological, architectural and documentary evidence is also used, to reveal surprising activity on the English coast, both defensive and offensive; and close study of surviving artefacts - specifically artillery pieces, longbows, nautical remains and church monuments - makes possible realistic assessments of military and naval capabilities and experiences. These studies of aspects of the Hundred Years War offer a fresh and exiting approach to a fascinating and popular subject; their combined effect is to give a very real insight, drawing on all manner of practical evidence, into the realities of warfare in the middle ages.

ISBN:

0851153658 (acid-free paper)
9780851153650 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.
Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453.
15.70 history of Europe.
Geschichte
Hundertjähriger Krieg
Kriegführung
Hundred years war.
Armed forces.
Fortifications.
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 Artillery operations
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 Monuments.
England.
France.

Form/genre:

Kongreß Oxford 1991.

Added entries:

Curry, Anne.
Hughes, Michael (Michael Frank), 1934-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 82570
Call No.: ID PLS DC96.H86; ID:95-B2996
Status: Available