Primary Sources
Chronicles and Contemporary Texts
For a description of the route of the 1356 chevauchée from Bergerac see the Eulogium Historiarum, iii, ed. F.S. Haydon, London, 1863.
On the battle of Poitiers itself see The Anonimalle Chronicle, ed.V.H. Galbraith, Manchester, 1927 which contains unique details of the encounter.
Geoffrey Le Baker, Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke, 1305-56, ed. E.M. Thompson, Oxford, 1889 also provides a full account and includes an exhortation made by the prince to his men before the battle.
The verse biography of the prince’s life written c.1380 by Chandos Herald recounts the battle and details the preliminary negotiations although it is most valuable for the Castilian campaign of 1367. Translations are available in the editions by M. Pope and E. Lodge, Life of the Black Prince by the Herald of Sir John Chandos, Oxford, 1910 and R. Barber, The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince, Woodbridge, 1986. The most recent edition is D.B. Tyson, Vie du Prince Noir, Tübingen, 1975.
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart provide a key insight into the mentality of the fourteenth century Anglo-French aristocracy. There are numerous editions:
Chroniques, ed. Simeon Luce (SHF), Paris, 1870-present.
Oeuvres, ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove, Brussels, 1867-77.
The most recent, although heavily expurgated translation into English is G. Brereton, Froissart: Chronicles, Harmondsworth, repr. 1978.
For a contemporary guide to chivalry probably written for the Order of the Star see The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny, ed. and trans. R. Kaueper and E. Kennedy, Philadelphia, 1996.
See also Christine de Pizan, The Book of Arms and Deeds of Chivalry, trans. Sumner Willard, ed. Charity Cannon Willard, Pennsylvania, 1999.
Collections of Sources in Translation
C. Allmand, Society at War. The Experience of England and France During the Hundred Years War, Edinburgh, 1973, repr. Woodbridge, 1998.
R. Barber, The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince, Woodbridge, 1986.
Clifford J. Rogers, The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretation, Woodbridge, 1999 (also contains a selection of important articles on the early stages of the Hundred Years War).
A.R. Myers, ed., English Historical Documents, iv, 1327-1485, London, 1969.
Administrative and Governmental Records
Thomas Rymer, Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae etc., London, 1708-9; rev. ed. A. Clarke, F. Holbroke and J. Coley, 4 vols in 7 parts (Record Commission), 1816-69.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Calendar of Patent Rolls, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem.
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504, ed. Chris Given-Wilson et al., Woodbridge, 2005.
For the household and estate of the Black Prince see The Register of Edward the Black Prince, ed. M.C.B. Dawes, 4 vols, London, 1930-3.
Biographies of the Black Prince
Richard Barber, Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, Woodbridge, 1978.
Barbara Emerson, The Black Prince, London, 1976.
M. Dupuy, Le Prince Noir, Paris, 1970.
David Green, The Black Prince, Stroud, 2001.
David Green, Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe, Harlow, 2007.
John Harvey, The Black Prince and his Age, London, 1976.
J. Moisant, Le Prince Noir en Aquitaine, 1355–6, 1362–70, Paris, 1894.
Military Studies
Andrew Ayton, Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Aristocracy under Edward III, Woodbridge, 1994.
Andrew Ayton and J.L. Price ed., The Medieval Military Revolution: State and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, London and New York, 1995.
J. Barnie, War in Medieval Society: Social Values and the Hundred Years War, 1337–99, London, 1974.
Jim Bradbury, The Medieval Siege, Woodbridge, 1992.
A.H. Burne, The Crécy War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Brétigny, 1360, London, 1955.
Philippe Contamine, Guerre, état et société à la fin du Moyen Âge. Etudes sur les armées des rois de France, 1337-1494, Paris, 1972; War in the Middle Ages (trans. Michael Jones), Oxford, 1987.
Anne Curry and Michael Hughes, ed., Arms, Armour and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War, Woodbridge, 1994.
Kenneth Fowler, Medieval Mercenaries, London, 2000.
H.J. Hewitt, The Black Prince’s Expedition of 1355–1357, Manchester, 1958; The Organization of War under Edward III, 1338–62, Manchester, 1966.
Maurice Keen ed., Medieval Warfare: A History, Oxford, 1999.
Michael Prestwich, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages. The English Experience, New Haven, 1996.
A.E. Prince, ‘The Strength of English Armies in the Reign of Edward III’, EHR, xlvi (1931), 353-71.
Clifford J. Rogers, ‘The Military Revolution of the Hundred Years’ War’, Journal of Military History, 57 (1993), 241-78; War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327–1360, Woodbridge, 2000.
Matthew Strickland, ed. Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval Britain and France: Proceedings of the 1995 Harlaxton Symposium, Stamford, 1998.
J.M. Tourneur-Aumont, La bataille de Poitiers (1356) et la construction de la France, Paris, 1940.
T.F. Tout, ‘Some Neglected Fights Between Crécy and Poitiers’, EHR, xx (1905), 726–30.
Nicholas Wright, Knights and Peasants. The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside, Woodbridge, 1998.
Archery and the Longbow
M. Bennett, ‘The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred Years War’, Arms, Armies and Fortifications, ed. Curry and Hughes, 1-20.
Jim Bradbury, The Medieval Archer, New York, 1985.
Claude Gaier, ‘L’invincibilité anglaise et le grande arc après la guerre de cents ans: un mythe tenace’, Tijdschrift voor gescheidenis, 91 (1978), 378-85
Robert Hardy, The Longbow, Cambridge, 1976.
John Keegan, Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, Harmondsworth, 1978, 78-116.
Clifford J. Rogers, ‘The Efficacy of the English Longbow: A Reply to Kelly DeVries, War in History, 5:2 (1998), 233-42.
Matthew Strickland and Robert Hardy, The Great Warbow: From Hastings to the Mary Rose, Stroud, 2005.
General Studies
C. Allmand, The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c.1300–c.1450, Cambridge, 1988.
F. Autrand, Charles V, le sage, Paris, 1994.
J. Bothwell ed., The Age of Edward III, Woodbridge, 2001.
Pierre Capra, ‘Les bases sociales du pouvoir anglo-gascon au milieu du xive siècle’, Le Moyen Age, 4ème sér. 30 (1975), 273-99; ‘L’évolution de l’administration anglo-gasconne au milieu du xive siècle’, Bordeaux et les Iles britanniques du xiiie au xxe siècle, [Actes du colloque franco-britannique tenu à York, 1973], Bordeaux, 1975, 19-25.
Anne Curry, The Hundred Years War, Houndmills, 1993.
R. Delachenal, Histoire de Charles V, 5 vols, Paris, 1909-31.
Jean Favier, La Guerre de Cent Ans, Paris, 1980.
C. Given-Wilson, The Royal Household and the King’s Affinity: Service, Politics and Finance, 1360–1413, New Haven and London, 1986; The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages, London, 1987.
H.J. Hewitt, Cheshire under the Three Edwards, Chester, 1967.
M. Keen, England in the Later Middle Ages, London, 1973.
Margaret Wade Labarge, Gascony. England’s First Colony 1204–1453, London, 1980.
W.M. Ormrod, The Reign of Edward III. Crown and Political Society in England 1327-77, New Haven and London, 1990.
M. Prestwich, The Three Edwards: War and State in England 1272–1377, 2nd ed. London, 2003; Plantagenet England, 1225–1360, Oxford, 2005.
Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, I: Trial by Battle, London, 1990; The Hundred Years War, II: Trial by Fire, London, 1999.
S.L. Waugh, England in the Reign of Edward III, Cambridge, 1991.
Chivalry and Ransoms
D’A.J.D. Boulton, The Knights of the Crown. The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe 1325–1520, 2nd ed., Woodbridge, 2000.
Hugh Collins, The Order of the Garter, 1348–1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England, Oxford, 2000.
C. Given-Wilson and F. Beriac, ‘Edward III’s Prisoners of War: The Battle of Poitiers and its Context’, EHR, cxvi (2001), 802-33.
Chris Given-Wilson and Françoise Bériac-Lainé, Les prisonniers de la bataille de Poitiers, Paris, 2002.
R.W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe, Oxford, 1999.
M. Keen, The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages, London, 1965.
M. Keen, Chivalry, New Haven and London, 1984; Origins of the English Gentleman: Heraldry, Chivalry and Gentility in Medieval England, c.1300–c.1500, Stroud, 2002.
J. Vale, Edward III and Chivalry: Chivalric Society and its Context, 1270–1350, Woodbridge, 1982.
M. Vale, War and Chivalry:Aristocratic Culture in England, France and Burgundy at the End of the Middle Ages, London, 1981; The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe 1270–1380, Oxford, 2001.
BL British Library
BPR The Register of Edward the Black Prince Preserved in the Public Record Office, ed. M.C.B. Dawes, 4 vols, London, 1930-33.
CCR Calendar of Close Rolls
CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls
CIPM Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
EHR English Historical Review
GEC G.E. Cockayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland,Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 13 vols in 14, repr. Gloucester, 2000
Henxteworth Day-book or journale of Sir John Henxteworth, Duchy of Cornwall Record Office
PRO Public Record Office (now The National Archives, Kew, London)
Rymer Thomas Rymer, Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae etc, London, 1708-9, rev. ed., A. Clark, F. Holbroke and J. Coley, 4 vols in 7 parts (Record Commission), 1816-69.
SHF Société de l’histoire de France
TRHS Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
VCH Victoria County History