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- Title
Reappraising Late Medieval Strategy: The Example of the 1415 Agincourt Campaign.
- Authors
Honig, Jan Willem
- Abstract
Modern military historians struggle to explain medieval strategic behaviour. One key reason, the article argues, is their strong belief in the existence of timeless strategic standards. By analysing the example of the 1415 Agincourt campaign, the article proposes a new approach to understanding late medieval strategy. By reconstructing the normative framework that underpinned strategic practice, the critical importance emerges of an unusual set of conventions which regulated strategy and which allowed for a degree of risk-taking that the traditional and current historiography cannot otherwise explain.
- Subjects
FRANCE; HISTORY of medieval military art &; science; BATTLE of Agincourt, France, 1415; MILITARY strategy; CHRISTIANITY; WAR; RELIGION; HENRY V, King of England, 1387-1422; MILITARY historiography; MILITARY historians; HUNDRED Years' War, 1339-1453; HISTORY
- Publication
War in History, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0968344511432975