Documenting Warfare: Data of the Hundred Years Conflict, Edited and Translated in Honour of Anne Curry
Edited by Rémy Ambühl and Andy King
The Boydell Press
ISBN: 978-1-83765-024-8
Administrative data provide a number of insights into the Hundred Years’ Conflict. This assortment of 18 articles tells us about a variety of subjects, from ransoms to crimes on marketing campaign.
Excerpt:
Our chosen strategy is probably barely out of the abnormal for a festschrift, but it surely arose naturally, as a matter after all, for 2 major causes. The primary is that it combines three underlying elements of Anne Curry’s analysis pursuits: firstly, on the coronary heart of her work, the usage of archival paperwork, and their modifying and translation; secondly, the theme of warfare, its organisation, conduct and its women and men; and thirdly, the context of the Hundred Years Conflict (1337–1453). Our readers who want to know extra about how our honor and has contributed to those specific facets of scholarship, and certainly to many others – Anne’s scholarship doesn’t lack breadth – shall be nicely served by Michael Jones and Tony Pollard’s appreciation on the finish of the amount, adopted by an essay by Veronique Gazeau which highlights Anne’s shut hyperlinks to Normandy.
Who is that this guide for?
This assortment of essays is devoted to Anne Curry, some of the influential historians of the Hundred Years’ Conflict. Anybody accustomed to her work will take pleasure in this guide, because it gives a lot to the examine of medieval army historical past.
“On the entire, Documenting Warfare is a wonderful guide, each as a testomony to the affect of Anne Curry and in its personal proper as a quantity on the Hundred Years Conflict. These chapters and sources will present a useful useful resource for years to return and hopefully they could even spark additional analysis questions as they steadily cowl much less explored facets of the warfare. An incredible guide that the editors and contributors, in addition to Curry herself, needs to be very pleased with.” ~ assessment by Stuart Ellis-Gorman on De Re Militari
The Editors
Rémy Ambühl is Affiliate Professor in Medieval Historical past on the College of Southampton. Andy King is a Lecturer on the College of Southampton. See additionally this Q&A with the editors.
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