Preface to the e-book (2014)
As we approach the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt (25 October 2015), I am delighted to have the opportunity to publish my study of the sources in an e-book. Thanks to Caroline Palmer and Joseph Runnacles of The Boydell Press for their help and support. Many thanks also to Marie Cross, my Executive Officer at the University of Southampton, who has helped prepare the text.
In preparing the text I have added references to key works which have appeared since the first edition of 2000. Biographical details which used the Dictionary of National Biography can now be supplemented by the on-line and printed edition of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. I have also taken the opportunity to integrate the texts which I placed as an addenda to the second edition of 2009. I have not, however, updated the commentaries. In Agincourt: A New History (2005, paperback 2006) I provided an account of the events of the battle as well as a discussion of the raising of the English and French armies which supplements Chapter 5 of the current book. I have also contextualised interpretations of the battle from the 15th century to the present day in a forthcoming book on Agincourt in the Oxford University Press series The Cultural Legacy of the Great Battles. My work on the armies continues. In association with Prof Adrian Bell, Dr Adam Chapman, Dr Andy King and Dr David Simpkin, and with the financial support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the names of all known soldiers serving the English crown between 1369 and 1453 were placed on-line (www.medievalsoldier.org). For the anniversary of the battle a charity and dedicated website has been established (www.agincourt.com).