Documenting Warfare

<b>Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages</b><br><br><br>Documentary sources for the Hundred Years War are many and varied yet given the number that exist comparatively few have been published and even fewer translated. The contributors to this volume celebrating the work of Professor Anne Curry provide a wide selection of these sources edited and translated and accompanied with detailed analysis and commentaries by experts in the field. They include contracts inventories letters of grace depositions and wills and shed new light across a range of themes from recruitment violence ransoms and peace to gunpowder shipping dress and stray horses. An introductory essay gives a wider perspective on the sources for the Hundred Years War taking a comparative view from both sides of the Channel.<br><br><br>Chapter 8 is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY−NC−ND. The Open Access version of this chapter was funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/S011765/1).