Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of illustrations ix
4. List of contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. List of abbreviations xii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. The M 9 chronicle and its authors
9. The chronicle manuscript and its scribe, Luket Nantron (Deborah Ellen Thorpe) 9
10. Peter Basset 18
11. Christopher Hanson 25
12. William Worcester 30
13. Team work 38
14. 2. The format and content of the M 9 chronicle
15. A work of two halves? 45
16. The English in the M 9 chronicle 50
17. The French in the M 9 chronicle 62
18. The lists 65
19. 3. The portrayal of war in the M 9 chronicle
20. The justification of war 75
21. Strategy and tactics 76
22. Battles 79
23. Sieges 81
24. Numbers and organisation 91
25. Bravery and cowardice 94
26. Oath taking and oath breaking 96
27. Conclusion 99
28. 4. French in fifteenth-century England: what linguistic choices? (Richard Ingham)
29. Introduction 103
30. Indications of non-native authorship? 104
31. Central French and other continental varieties 105
32. The French of England 110
33. Linguistic analysis of the M 9 chronicle 114
34. Conclusions 120
35. 5. The post-medieval history of the chronicle and its use by the heralds
36. The immediate fate of the chronicle 121
37. Heralds and the M 9 chronicle 125
38. Other heralds and the annotations within the M 9 chronicle 131
39. The use of the chronicle by Robert Glover 134
40. 6. The M 9 chronicle and the histories of the mid-Tudor period
41. Edward Hall 139
42. Hall and the M 9 chronicle 142
43. Comparison of the M 9 chronicle and Hall’s Union 144
44. The influence of Hall’s Union 153
45. Shakespeare 155
46. The Basset problem 159
47. 7. ‘In the Mids of his Glory’: the M 9 chronicle, ‘A Mirror for Magistrates’, and the tragedy of English imperialism (Scott Lucas) 165
48. The Edition of College of Arms MS M 9 folios 31r–66r
49. Editorial practices 177
50. Edition of the original text and its annotations 181
51. English translation, identifications and commentary 231
52. Appendix: Additional material by William Worcester bound into College of Arms MS M 9 375
53. Bibliography 377
54. Index to chapters and translation footnotes 403
55. Index to text and translation 415