From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

'Literatures of the Hundred Years War is therefore a book to read with enthusiasm. Its contents (on England vis-à-vis French writers, French manuscripts, the French war) will keep scholars busy for years to come'
Andrew Breeze, University of Navarre, Mediaevistik

Daniel Davies is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston
R. D. Perry is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver