Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Abbreviations and conventions vii
5. Timeline of the Hundred Years War and its aftermath x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 ‘When the world woxe old, it woxe warre old’ History, etymology and national identity, 1066–1337 9
8. 2 ‘To destroy and ruin the whole English nation and language’ The chronicles of the Hundred Years War 51
9. 3 ‘God gyue you quadenramp!’ Mimetic language in the war poetry of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 100
10. 4 ‘The brightnesse of braue and glorious words’ Language and war in the sixteenth century 164
11. 5 ‘Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all’ The Hundred Years War on the stage in the 1590s 206
12. Conclusion 251
13. Bibliography 255
14. Acknowledgements 283
15. Index 287