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Anne Curry and Adrian R. Bell, eds.
Journal of Medieval Military History, Volume IX: Soldiers, Weapons & Armies in the Fifteenth Century.

Publisher: Boydell Press.
Publication due: September 2011.
Size: 23.4 x 15.6.
Page count:212pp.

Publisher's recommended price
Hardback ISBN 9781843836681, £60.00

Description:

The articles in this volume focus on the fifteenth century. Several draw on the substantial archives of the Burgundian polity, focusing particularly on the Flemish shooting guilds, spying, and the provision of troops by towns. The urban emphasis continues with a study of the transition from `traditional' artillery to gunpowder weaponry in Southampton, and a comparison of descriptions of military engagements in the London Chronicles and in Swiss town chronicles. Welsh chronicling of the battle of Edgecote (1469) is also reviewed, and there is a re-assessment of Welsh involvement in the Agincourt campaign. English interests in France are pursued in two further papers, one considering the personnel of the ordnance companies in Lancastrian Normandy and the other examining the little-known French attacks on Gascony in the early years of the fifteenth century.

Contributors: Frederik Buylaert, Jan Van Camp, Bert Verwerft, Adam Chapman, Laura Crombie, Andy King, Barry Lewis, Randall Moffett, Guilhem Pepin, Andreas Rémy, Bastian Walter.

Contents:
1 The French Offensives of 1404-1407 against Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine
2 The King's Welshmen: Welsh Involvement in the Expeditionary Army of 1415
3 Gunners, Aides and Archers: The Personnel of the English Ordnance Companies in Normandy in the Fifteenth Century
4 Defense, Honor and Community: the Military and Social Bonds of the Dukes of Burgundy and the Flemish Shooting Guilds
5 The Battle of Edgecote or Banbury (1469) through the Eyes of Contemporary Welsh Poets
6 Descriptions of Battles in Fifteenth-Century Urban Chronicles: a Comparison of the Siege of London in May 1471 and the Battle of Grandson, 2 March 1476
7 Urban Espionage and Counterespionage during the Burgundian Wars (1468-77)
8 Urban Militias, Nobles and Mercenaries: The Organization of the Antwerp Army in the Flemish-Brabantine Revolt of the 1480s
9 Military Equipment in the Town of Southampton During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.