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The Hundred Years War (Part II) VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd i 7/5/2008 3:46:46 PM History of Warfare Editor Kelly DeVries Loyola College Founding editors Theresa Vann Paul Chevedden VOLUME 51 VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd ii 7/5/2008 3:46:49 PM The Hundred Years War (Part II) Different Vistas Edited by L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd iii 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM Cover illustration: “Bataille entre Romains et Carthaginois (–203 ou –202)”, Fran- çais 268, fol. 423. With kind permission of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Illustration suggested by Clifford J. Rogers. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Hundred Years War (part II) : different vistas / edited by L. J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay. p. cm.— (History of warfare ; v. 51) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-16821-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Hundred Years’ War, 1339–1453. 2. France—History, Military—1328–1589. 3. Great Britain—History, Military—1066–1485. 4. France—Foreign relations—Great Britain. 5. Great Britain—Foreign relations—France. 6. Military art and science—Europe—History. I. Villalon, L. J. Andrew. II. Kagay, Donald J. III. Title. IV. Series. DC96.H88 2008 944’.025—dc22 2008022006 ISSN 1385-7827 ISBN 978 90 04 16821 3 Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyrights holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. All rights reserved. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd iv 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM In Piam Memoriam Dr. Dana Sample Recte Vixit et Fortiter Obiit VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd v 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd vi 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM CONTENTS List of Illustrations ...................................................................... xi List of Maps ............................................................................... xiii List of Contributors .................................................................... xv Acknowledgments ....................................................................... xxi Abbreviations .............................................................................. xxiii Introduction ................................................................................ xxv PART ONE BROADER HORIZONS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR The Hundred Years Wars: Not One But Many ....................... 3 Kelly DeVries PART TWO AGINCOURT AND ITS AFTERMATH The Battle of Agincourt ............................................................. 37 Clifford J. Rogers Grief and Memory After the Battle of Agincourt .................... 133 Megan Cassidy-Welch PART THREE THE IBERIAN FACE OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR “Cut Off Their Heads, or I’ll Cut Off Yours”: Castilian Strategy and Tactics in the War of the Two Pedros and the Supporting Evidence from Murcia .................................. 153 L. J. Andrew Villalon VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd vii 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM viii contents The Defense of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Two Pedros (1356–1366) .................................................. 185 Donald J. Kagay PART FOUR THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF ARCHERY IN THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR The English Longbow: A Revolution in Technology? .............. 213 David Whetham The Longbow-Crossbow Shootout at Crécy (1346): Has the “Rate of Fire Commonplace” Been Overrated? ................... 233 Russell Mitchell PART FIVE MILITARY PARTICIPANTS IN THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR Philip VI’s Mortal Enemy: Robert of Artois and the Beginning of the Hundred Years War ................................... 261 Dana L. Sample The Combat of the Thirty against Thirty: An Example of Medieval Chivalry? ................................................................. 285 Steven Muhlberger John Hawkwood: Florentine Hero and Faithful Englishman ............................................................................. 295 William P. Caferro The Afterlife of a Hero: Bertrand du Guesclin Imagined ........ 329 Richard Vernier VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd viii 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM contents ix PART SIX FISCAL, LITERARY, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR Purveyance and Peasants at the Beginning of the Hundred Years War: Maddicott Reexamined ....................................... 345 Ilana Krug The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Visions of Burgundy, France, and England in the Oeuvres of Georges Chastellain .............................................................................. 367 L. B. Ross Mental Incapacity and the Financing of War in Medieval England ................................................................................... 387 Wendy J. Turner Appendices Appendix One: The Hundred Years War and Genealogical Charts ...................................................................................... 403 Appendix Two: Genealogies ...................................................... 424 Popes ....................................................................................... 425 European Rulers and Nobility ............................................... 426 Kings of England ............................................................... 426 Kings of Scotland ............................................................... 426 Kings of France .................................................................. 427 French Noble Houses ......................................................... 427 Low Countries .................................................................... 428 Holy Roman Emperors ...................................................... 429 Duchy of Milan .................................................................. 430 German Noble Houses ....................................................... 431 Spanish Rulers ........................................................................ 431 Castile .................................................................................. 431 Crown of Aragon ............................................................... 431 Navarre ............................................................................... 432 Portugal ............................................................................... 432 VILLALON-KAGAY_f1_i-xxxii.indd ix 7/5/2008 3:46:50 PM
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