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Arms, Armies, and Fortifications in the title: Hundred Years War author: Curry, Anne. publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd. isbn10 | asin: 0851153658 print isbn13: 9780851153650 ebook isbn13: 9780585209616 language: English subject Hundred Years War, 1339-1453. publication date: 1994 lcc: DC96.A76 1994eb ddc: 944/.025 subject: Hundred Years War, 1339-1453. Page iii Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War Edited by Anne Curry & Michael Hughes THE BOYDELL PRESS Page iv © Contributors 1994 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1994 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 0 85115 365 8 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War I. Curry, Anne II. Hughes, Michael 944.025 ISBN 0-85115-365-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arms, armies and fortifications in the Hundred Years War / edited by Anne Curry and Michael Hughes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.). ISBN 0-85115-365-8 (acid-free paper) I. Hundred Years' War, 13391453. I. Curry, Anne. II. Hughes, Michael, 1934 . DC96.H86 1994 944'.025dc20 94-5021 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Page v Contents List of Contributors vi List of Plates vii List of Figures x Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations xvii 1. The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred 1 Years War Matthew Bennett 2. English Armies in the Fourteenth Century 21 Andrew Ayton 3. English Armies in the Fifteenth Century 39 Anne Curry 4. The War in Aquitaine 69 Malcolm Vale 5. The Domestic Response to the Hundred Years War 83 W. M. Ormrod 6. War and Fourteenth-Century France 103 Michael Jones 7. The Fourteenth-Century French Raids on Hampshire 121 and the Isle of Wight Michael Hughes 8. Coastal Artillery Fortification in England in the Late 145 Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries John R. Kenyon 9. Artillery and the Hundred Years War: Myth and 151 Interpretation Robert D. Smith 10. The Longbow 161 Robert Hardy 11. Winds of Change? Ships and the Hundred Years War 183 Ian Friel 12. English Church Monuments during the Period of the 195 Hundred Years War Brian Kemp Index of Names and Places 213 Contributors Matthew Lecturer, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Bennett Andrew Lecturer in History, University of Hull Ayton Anne Senior Lecturer in History, University of Reading Curry Malcolm Fellow and University Lecturer, St John's College, Oxford Vale W.M. Lecturer in History, University of York Ormrod Michael Professor of Medieval French History, University of Nottingham Jones Michael County Archaeologist, Hampshire County Council and Visiting Hughes Fellow, University of Southampton John R. Librarian, National Museum of Wales Kenyon Robert D. Head of Conservation, Royal Armouries, HM Tower of London Smith Robert Actor, and Trustee, Mary Rose Trust Hardy Ian Friel Keeper, Littlehampton Museum Brian Professor of Medieval History, University of Reading Kemp Page vii Plates The plates appear between pages 110 and 111 English Armies in the Fourteenth Century I The battlefield of Crécy, looking south-eastwards from the observation tower thought to be on the site of the windmill from which Edward III viewed the field. II The battlefield of Crécy, looking north-eastwards from Edward's supposed viewing point towards the village of Wadicourt. IIIBois de Crécy-Grange, near to which was placed the English baggage park behind the English lines. IVThe battlefield of Poitiers. English Armies in the Fifteenth Century VSir John Cressy's retinue in the muster roll of 26 March, 1441 (PRO, E101/53/33). The War in Aquitaine VI The castle of Beynac (Dordogne) on its promontory. VII The keep of the castle of Beynac (Dordogne). VIII The town defences of Libourne (Gironde). War and Fourteenth-Century France IX The castle of Motcontour (Vienne), finally retaken by the French in 1372. X The port defences of La Rochelle, after 1372. XI The fortified church of Esnandes (Charente-Maritime). XIIThe town defences of Avignon, c. 135570. The Fourteenth-Century Franch Raids XIIIPortsmouth: the seaward defences constructed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. XIVSouthampton: Back of the Walls excavations showing remains of late thirteenth-century dovecote and fourteenth-century half-round tower.
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