Late Medieval Warfare
(In France, Germany and the Low Countries, including the Hundred Years War, from 1275 to the Fifteenth Century)
Sources
The Battle of the Golden Spurs, 1302 - added July 13, 2003
Medieval London's Military Contributions - updated September 22, 2002
Walter de Manny attacks Mortagne, 1339 - added May 25, 2003
Edward III's Letter detailing his campaign in France, 1339 - added June 18, 2003
The French Chronicle of London on the battle of Sluys and the siege of Tournai - added December 9, 2001
Source Documents Relating to the Wars of Edward III - from ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - added June 3, 2002
The Battle of Crécy according to Froissart - added September 13, 2002
The Life of the Black Prince by Chandos Herald - added September 15, 2002 (PDF)
Letter from Edward the Black Prince, about the Battle of Poitiers, 1356
Warfare in France and Flanders, 1381 to 1386, according to Buonaccorso Pitti - added March 16, 2003
The Tree of Battles, by Honoré Bouvet - added June 1, 2003
Battles and Campaigns from The Chronicle of Adam of Usk - added January 5, 2002
Battle of Agincourt, 1415 - added January 1, 2002
Joan
of Arc's campaigns, from the Chronicles
of Enguerrand de Monstrelet
Articles
Arthurson, Ian, Espionage and Intelligence from the Wars of the Roses to the Reformation - from Nottingham Medieval Studies v.35 (1991) - added September 5, 2002
Ayton, Andrew and Price, J.L., The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective - from The Medieval Military Revolution (1998) - added July 7, 2002
Ayton, Andrew, Edward III and the English aristocracy at the beginning of the Hundred Years War - from Harlaxton Medieval Studies v.7 (1998) - added August 13, 2002
Bachrach, David, A Military Revolution Reconsidered: The Case of the Burgundian State Under the Valois Dukes - from Essays in Medieval Studies v.15 (1998) - added September 13, 2002
Bennett, Matthew, The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred Years War - from Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War (1994) - added June 9, 2003
Blieck, Edgar de, Analysis of Crowland's Section on the Usurpation of Richard III - (2003) - added May 12, 2003
Curry, Anne, The Nationality of Men-at-Arms serving in English Armies in Normandy and the pays de conquete, 1415-1450: A Preliminary Survey - from Reading Medieval Studies 18 (1992) - added August 30, 2002
DeVries, Kelly, God, leadership, Flemings and Archery: Contemporary Perspectives of Victory and Defeat at the Battle of Sluys 1340 - from American Neptune v.55 (1995) - added June 17, 2003 (PDF file)
DeVries, Kelly, Contemporary Views of Edward III's failure at the Siege of Tournai - from Nottingham Medieval Studies v.39 (1995) - added June 18, 2003
DeVries, Kelly, The Use of Gunpowder Weaponry by and Against Joan of Arc During the Hundred Years War - from War and Society v.14 (1996) - added June 17, 2003
Ditchburn, David, Bremen Piracy and Scottish Periphery: The North Sea World in the 1440s - from Ships, Guns and Bibles in the North Sea and the Baltic States, c.1350-c.1700 (2000) - added January 27, 2003
Ditcham, Brian, The employment of foreign mercenary troops in the French royal armies, 1415-1470 (Ph.D dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1979) - added February 3, 2003
Eltis, David, Towns and Defence in Later Medieval Germany - from Nottingham Medieval Studies v.33 (1989) - added March 8, 2002
Given-Wilson, Christopher, Edward III's Prisoners of War: The Battle of Poitiers and its Context - from English Historical Review v.116 (2001) - added May 12, 2002
Halsey, Catherine, Reforming England's 'Harde Covetouse Hert': William Worcester and the Diagnosis of Defeat - from York Medieval Yearbook v.1 (2002) (PDF file) - added December 26, 2002
Herwaarden, Jan van, The War in the Low Countries - from Froissart: Historian (1981) - added May 12, 2003
Jones, Michael, The fortunes of war: the military career of John, second lord Bourchier (d.1400) - from Essex Archaeology and History v.26 (1995) - added December 15, 2002
Jones, R.L.C., The State of Fortification in Lancastrian Normandy, 1417-50, University of Oxford, DPhil Thesis (1994) - added August 18, 2002
Morillo, Stephen, Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan - from the Journal of World History v.6 n.1 (1995) - added February 26, 2003
Muhlberger, Steven, Fighting for Fun? What Was At Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century? - added December 26, 2002
Ormrod, W.M., Edward III - from History Today v.52 n.6 (June 2002) - added July 15, 2002
Rogers, Clifford, A Continuation of the Manuel d'histoire de Philippe VI for the Years 1328-39 - from English Historical Review v. 114 (1999) - added May 23, 2002
Runyan, T.J., Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French Warfare, 1337-1360 - from American Neptune v.46 (1986) - added July 17, 2002
Taylor, Craig, Sir John Fortescue and the French Polemical Treatises of the Hundred Years War - from English Historical Review v.114 (1999) - added May 12, 2002
Book Reviews
War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France, edited by Christopher Allmand - reviewed by Clifford Rogers
Agincourt 1415: Henry V, Sir Thomas Erpingham and the triumph of the English archers, edited by Anne Curry - reviewed by David Grummitt
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe, by Bert S. Hall - reviewed by Randall Storey
The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the Knights of Flanders Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302, by Randall Fegley - reviewed by Susan Rose
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe, by Bert S. Hall - reviewed by Louis Hass (The Historian)
The Wars of Edward III, edited by Clifford Rogers - reviewed by Sean Mcglynn (History Today)
War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360, by Clifford Rogers - reviewed by Michael Prestwich (Reviews in History)
External Web Sites
The History of Valois Burgundy (Special offer from Boydell and Brewer)
http://home.tiscalinet.be/liebaart/gulden_e.htm - The Battle of Courtrai or the Battle of the Golden Spurs - July 11th 1302 - by Joris de Sutter
http://www.skcldv.demon.co.uk/shrewsb.htm - The Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403 - gives an account of the battle as well information about its 600th anniversary celebrations
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/report97/towton.htm - The Towton Project - about the archaeological work done on a mass burial of soldiers killed at the battle of Towton, 1461
http://www.richard111.com/roses.htm - Wars of the Roses - descriptions of each battle in this conflict, from The Richard III Foundation
http://www.ostwald.hispeed.com/EMWWeb/EMWWeb.shtml - EMWWEB: Early Modern Warfare Website
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