La guerre en normandie (xie-xve siècles)
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 40274073
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Presses universitaires de Caen
- ISBN
- 9782841338894
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Following a successful bid by Curry in association with Gazeau (Caen), the annual conference on Normandy at Cerisy-la Salle in 2015 was focused on the experience of war. Publication of the proceedings exemplify the conference aim to generate new insights across the whole period and its sub-periods of ducal, French and English rule. Speakers were carefully selected by Curry and Gazeau to ensure chronological and thematic balance and to mix established scholars and current/recent doctorants. Curry and Gazeau set out guiding questions on war and identity; styles of war; impact, recording and memorialisation.
All of the editorial work in terms of the content of the 20 papers was undertaken by Curry, who also dealt with the copy-editing of the three papers in English, Gazeau dealing with the copy editing of the 17 in French and liaising with the publisher. All authors revised their papers in the light of Curry’s comments, to enhance cohesion and consistency across the whole volume. Curry had established the over-arching arguments to be debated in her presentation at the conference opening, which she developed into an extensive 17-page introduction (c. 8,000 words) uniting the arguments and findings. In this she ranges across the historiography of warfare in Normandy within a broader Anglo-French context, the distinctive features of conflict in Normandy generated by its long land and sea frontiers, the variable influences of internal and external factors, and the distinctive nature of sources for the study of war in Normandy. The volume also includes a sole-authored chapter based on Curry’s archival research on Henry V’s conquest which brings to light hitherto unstudied disciplinary ordinances, important not only for the light which they shed on military organisation but also on the ideal, if not idealistic, civil-military relationship to which the English as conquerors and occupiers aspired.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This edited collection consists of 20 essays concerning different aspects of warfare in Normandy between the 11th and 15th centuries. The individual contributions were commissioned to create a thorough discussion of the place of war in the forging of the duchy of Normandy both in the ducal past to 1204 and in the contested control during the Hundred Years War. Curry wrote the 'rapport introductif', which provides a historiographical and conceptual overview of warfare in the duchy and its contribution to the formation and identity of the duchy.