In April 2024, Manchester University Press published Literatures of the Hundred Years War, a volume of twelve essays I co-edited with my friend and colleague R.D. Perry (University of Tennessee-Knoxville). Editing the book during the course of the pandemic certainly had its challenges, but we’re immensely grateful to Manchester University Press and to our contributors for their support.
Here is the table of contents:
Preface – Ardis Butterfield
Introduction: Literatures of the Hundred Years War – Daniel Davies and R.D. Perry
- Infinite Tragedy and the Hundred Years War – Andrew Galloway
- Forms Against War: the pastourelle and the Hundred Years War – Elizaveta Strakhov
- Prophecies of Alliance and Enmity: England, Scotland and France in the late Middle Ages – Daniel Davies
- Italy, poetry and the Hundred Years War – David Wallace
- Merchandising Peace – Lynn Staley
- Mobility and Migration: Calais and the Welsh Imagination in the late Middle Ages – Helen Fulton
- The shared wound: Crusade and the origins of the Hundred Years War in the writings of Philippe de Mézières – Stefan Vander Elst
- Mirrors of war: chronicle narratives, class conflict and regiminal ideology between France and England, c. 1330-1415 – Matthew Giancarlo
- Dreaming the (un)divided nation: Alain Chartier’s allegorical oneiropolitics – Lucas Wood
- War, tears and corporeal response in Christine de Pizan – Alani Hicks-Bartlett
- Visionary women, the Papal Schism and the Hundred Years War: Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena in medieval England – Jennifer N. Brown
- Between men: French books and male readers in fifteenth-century England – J.R. Mattison
Instead of an extract, here is the acknowledgements, the most important part of the book:
“Emily Steiner first suggested we put together a volume on the Hundred Years War at ‘Method and the Middle English Text’ held in Charlottesville, Virginia on 8–9 April 2016. We are grateful for her inspiration: this book would not exist without her. We would like to thank Marina Bilbija, Taylor Cowdery, H. M. Cushman, Sonja Drimmer, Ruth Evans, Walt Hunter, Sierra Lomuto, Jonathan Morton, Vince Sherry, Zachary E. Stone, Spencer Strub, Lindsay Turner, Sunny C. Yang and all those who supported this project through advice, feedback and encouragement. Audiences at the Medieval Academy of America (2018) and International Congress on Medieval Studies (2019) helped hone several of the chapters. The volume is available free of charge through Open Access thanks to the support of the Colgate University Research Council, Andrew Galloway, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol, the University of Denver’s Open Access Publication Equity Fund and the University of Houston’s CLASS Book Completion Fund and Small Grants Program. The University of Houston provided further support through the Martha Gano Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism. At Manchester University Press we are grateful to Meredith Carroll for advocacy, patience and support, especially through the COVID-19 pandemic, and to Laura Swift, Juanita Bullough, Ideas on Fire, Karen Nash, and everyone involved in the production process for their expertise and assistance. Likewise, we are grateful to Anke Bernau, David Matthews and the volume’s anonymous readers, at the proposal and manuscript stage, who helped clarify the volume’s focus. Above all, we want to thank our contributors for their generosity and commitment.”
You can access the book free of charge here.