Agincourt /Anne Curry.
- First edition.
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Great battles .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Great Battles: Agincourt; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 2: Agincourt: The Battle in Context; Preparations; The Campaign; The Battle; The Killing of the Prisoners and the Aftermath of the Battle; A Decisive Battle?; 3: 'The Noble Beginning' or 'The Accursed Day'? Early Interpretations; England: The Noble Beginning; France: The Accursed Day; 4: 'Alarms and Excursions': The Enduring Influence of Shakespeare's Agincourt; Sixteenth-Century Histories and the Battle of Agincourt; Shakespeare's Agincourt Created. Shakespeare's Agincourt ReplayedOlivier's Agincourt (1944); Branagh's Agincourt (1989); Conclusion; 5: 'France's Bane and England's Glory! 'Agincourt, War, and National Identity; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; 1815-1914; The First World War; 6: 'Agincourt PLC': Traditions, Myths, and Creations; Agincourt Ancestors and the Search for Gentility; The Welsh; The V-Sign; Agincourt Objects and Legends; The Created Agincourt; Literature; Art; Music; What's in a Name?; 7: 'Rival Experts Prepare To Do Battle over Agincourt'; Agincourt Research.
Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. Everybody thinks they know what the battle was about. Even John Lennon, aged 12, wrote a poem and drew a picture headed 'Agincourt'. But why and how has Agincourt come to mean so much, to so many? Why do so many people claim their ancestors served at the battle? Is the Agincourt of popular image the real Agincourt, or is our idea of the battle simply taken from Shakespeare's famous depiction of it? Written by the world's leading expert on the battle, this book shows just why it has occupied such a key place in English identity and history in the six centuries since it was fought, exploring a cultural legacy that stretches from bowmen to Beatles, via Shakespeare, Dickens, and the First World War. Anne Curry first sets the scene, illuminating how and why the battle was fought, as well as its significance in the wider history of the Hundred Years War.
9780191502774
Agincourt, Battle of, Agincourt, France, 1415. Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--Campaigns--France. Military art and science--History--Europe--15th century.