Henry V: The Background, Strategies, Tactics and Battlefield Experiences of the Greatest Commanders of History Paperback (21 page)

It is this image of Henry as military hero that has

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remained through to the 20th century, reintroduced

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in the age of film through the performances and

direction of Laurence Olivier in his 1944 version

H i f t o r y of H e n r y the fift,

and Kenneth Branagh in 1989. Olivier's version,

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Britain', while Branagh's film is much grittier in its

portrayal of the battle scenes in particular.

Modern academic tradition has a much more

nuanced view of Henry and his achievements, though

still influenced by the work of the noted 20th-century

medievalist K. B. MacFarlane, who considered Henry

the greatest man to have ruled England. The late 20th

century and early 21st century has seen something of

an explosion of works on the subject, helped no end by

the translation of sources of the battle published

L O N D O N

by Anne Curry in 2000, while recent work on the

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financial records of both sides has shed new light on

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the numbers involved in both the Agincourt campaign

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and the foundation of Lancastrian Normandy.

The title page of the

first quarto edition of

Shakespeare's Henry V,

F U R T H E R R E A D I N G

published in 1600.

The play is thought to

In recent years there has been a proliferation of material on both Henry V and

have first been performed

the Lancastrian kingdom of France, with recent works by Juliet Barker being

at the Globe theatre

popular, well written and scholarly. Ian Mortimer's just published day-by-day

between February

account of the year 1415 puts much of the run up to the battle of Agincourt

and September 1599.

within its European context and is useful for the insights it provides in that

(Author's collection)

direction.

Anne Curry's work on Henry V and the Hundred Years War has proved

particularly valuable, in particular her edited sources for the battle, while

her
Agincourt: A New History
dramatically revises the numbers involved in

the battle based upon her use of financial records from both the English

and French sides; mention must also be made of the online database

developed by Anne Curry amongst others listing English soldiers involved

in the Hundred Years War:
http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/.

Printed primary material

Cole, Charles Augustus,
Memorials of Henry the Fifth, King of England
Longman,

Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts: London, 1858

Curry, Anne (ed.),
The battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations
Boydell Press:

Woodbridge, 2000

62

Given-Wilson, C. (ed.),
The Chronicle of Adam Usk, 1377-1421
Clarendon Press:

Oxford, 1997

Kingsford, C. L. (ed.),
The first English life of king Henry the fifth ... by an anonymous

author known commonly as the translator ofLivius
Oxford, 1911

Taylor, Frank, and Roskell, John S. (eds.),
Gesta Henrici Quinti
Clarendon Press:

Oxford, 1975

Secondary material

Allmand, C. T.,
Henry V,
Methuen: London, 1992

Barker, Juliet,
Agincourt: the King, the Campaign, the Battle
Little, Brown: London, 2005

, Conquest: the English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450
Little, Brown: London, 2009

Bennett, Matthew, Campaign 9:
Agincourt 1415
Osprey Publishing Ltd: Oxford, 1991

Curry, Anne (ed.),
Agincourt, 1415: Henry V, Sir Thomas Erpingham and the Triumph of

the English Archers
Tempus: Stroud, 2005

Curry, Anne,
Agincourt: A New History
Tempus: Stroud, 2005

Curry, Anne, and Hughes, Michael, (eds.)
Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the

Hundred Years War
Boy dell Press: Woodbridge, 1994

, The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1457
Osprey Publishing Ltd: Oxford, 2002

Dockray, Keith,
Warrior king: the Life of Henry V
Tempus: Stroud, 2007

Hardy, Robert,
Longbow: a Social and Military History
Patrick Stephens: Sparkford, 1992

Jones, Michael K.,
Agincourt 1415
Pen & Sword: Barnsley, 2005

Keen, M. H.,
England in the Later Middle Ages: a Political History
Methuen:

London,1973

, Medieval Warfare: a History
Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999

Knight, Paul,
Henry V and the Conquest of France 1416-53
Osprey Publishing Ltd:

Oxford, 1998

McFarlane, K. B.,
Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights
Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1972

Mortimer, Ian,
The fears of Henry IV: the Life of England's Self-Made King
Jonathan

Cape: London, 2007

, 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
The Bodley Head: London, 2009

Rothero, Christopher, Men-at-Arms 113:
The Armies of Agincourt
Osprey Publishing

Ltd: Oxford, 1981

Seward, Desmond,
Henry V as Warlord
Sidgwick & Jackson: London, 1987

Shakespeare, William,
Complete Works
Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2007

I N D E X

References to illustrations are shown in

Falaise 4 2 , 4 6

Livio, Tito
see Vita Henrici Quinti

bold. Plates are prefixed pi, with captions

family trees 5

Lollards 58

on the page in brackets.

First English Life of Henry V
, 12, 13, 14,

Louis of Guienne, Dauphin of France

40-41, 42, 55, 61

and Burgundians 43

Aberystwyth, siege of (1407) 14, 50

France

death 54

Agincourt, battle of (1415) 28-37, 30, 32,

Burgundians vs Armagnacs 14-15,

disinherited by Troyes treaty 44, 45

33, 35, 36, 59

43, 53

and Henry V 25, 26, 47, 53

battlefield now 28, 29, 31, 34, 36, 38

early days of Hundred Years War 6

march to 25-28

English rights to throne 4 - 6

March, Earl of 52-53

monument to dead 37

Henry V's campaigns 9, 15-48, 16,

Meaux, siege of (1421) 47, 49, 59

Albret, Charles d', Constable of France

39, 47

Monstrelet, Enguerran 33, 34-36

26, 29, 30, 54

intervention in Welsh Revolt 13

Mortimer, Sir Edmund 10, 50, 51

Alen^on 43, 44, 45

Lancastrian kingdom of 55-57

Mowbray, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk 7

Alen^on, John, Duke of 30, 36, 53-54

archers 17, 19, 28-29, 29, 31-33, 40

Gesta Henrici Quinti
26-27, 28, 36, 58, 60

Nogent-le-Retrou 4 8

Arundel, Archbishop Thomas 14, 58

Gesta Vita Henrici
20-21, 21-22, 22-24

Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of 10,

Arundel, Thomas, Earl of 14, 15, 25, 59

Glendower, Owen 9-11, 13-14, 49-50, 4 9

11, 13, 50, 51, 52

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of 7, 25, 33,

Bauge, battle of (1421) 45

35, 42, 55-56

Orleans, Charles, Duke of 30, 36, 53, 54

Beaufort family

Grey of Ruthvin, Lord Reginald de 10, 50

Orleans, Louis, Duke of 15, 53

Beaufort, Henry, Bishop of Winchester

Orleans, siege of (1428) 56

background 7

Harfleur 39-40, 56

Oxford, Earl of 25

helps finance the war 17, 46

Harfleur, siege of (1415) 18-25, 20,

on Irish expedition 8

21, 23

Percy, Henry (Hotspur) 10-13, 51-52, 53

as part of Henry V's political faction 14

Henry lV, king of England (Henry

Pole, Michael de Ia, Earl of Suffolk 24, 36

strife with Gloucester 5 5 - 5 6

Bolingbroke) 5