The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the con
This historical literary study analyzes The Siege of Rouen, a poem written in Middle English which describes Henry V’s siege of Normandy in 1418; the poem is also related to the Middle English Brut ch
War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to self-mortifica
