Agincourt: Great Battles Series

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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.;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. 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.