This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approach that moves beyond the Anglo-French core.

Preface: Ardis ButterfieldIntroduction- Daniel Davies and R. D. Perry I. Genres of war1 Andrew Galloway- The birth of tragedy in the Hundred Years War2 Elizaveta Strakhov- Forms Against war: the pastourelle and the Hundred Years War 3 Daniel Davies- Prophecies of alliance and enmity: England, Scotland, and France in the late Middle AgesII. Figures and sites of mobility4 David Wallace- Italy, poetry and the Hundred Years War 5 Lynn Staley- Merchandising peace 6 Helen Fulton- Mobility and migration: Calais and the Welsh imagination in the late Middle Ages III. Theorizing war7 Stefan Vander Elst- The shared wound: Crusade and the origins of the Hundred Years War in the writings of Philippe de Mézières 8 Matthew Giancarlo- Mirrors of war: chronicle narratives, class conflict and regiminal ideology between France and England, c. 1330-14159 Lucas Wood- Dreaming the (un)divided nation: Alain Chartier’s allegorical oneiropolitics IV. Lives during wartime 10 Alani Hicks-Bartlett- War, tears, and corporeal response in Christine de Pizan11 Jennifer N. Brown- Visionary women, the Papal Schism and the Hundred Years War: Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena in medieval England12 J. R. Mattison- Between men: French books and male readers in fifteenth-century EnglandBibliography Index

This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. Many of the major writers of the period, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Giovanni Boccaccio and Bridget of Sweden, lived either all or most of their lives under war's shadow. The essays collected here investigate how authors use strategies including translation, adaptation and allegory to respond to the War. Simultaneously, they make a case for reconsidering how texts not generally seen as war literature, such as women's visionary writing or lyric poetry, form part of the broader context of European warfare. Extending the boundaries of what counts as war literature, the volume also moves beyond the traditional Anglo-French framing of the conflict by considering authors enmeshed in the conflict through proxy battles, diplomatic ties and ideological disputes. While covering English and French writers explicitly writing to the war, like John Lydgate or Alain Chartier, the book also explores the war writing of prominent Welsh, Scottish and Italian authors, including Dafydd ap Gwilym, Walter Bower and Catherine of Siena. Literatures of the Hundred Years War models a synthetic and transnational literary history of conflict that will pave the way for future scholarship in earlier and later periods. The essays in this volume show how literature did more than reflect the realities of the Hundred Years War; it was also a crucial site for contesting the claims of war as literary writers crafted ways to actively intervene in the conflict.