1. See Chaucer’s Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary, rev. ed. (London: Methuen, 1985).
2. See John Keegan, The Face of Battle (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976).
3. Archers are celebrated in a broadside entitled “Agincourt, or the English Bowman’s Glory,” but this dates from 1665, a much later phase of the complex afterlife of the 1415 battle.
4. See Anne Curry, The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations (Woodbridge, Suff: The Boydell Press, 2000), 302–04.
5. In his History of the Battle of Agincourt (London: Johnson and Co., 1832), Sir Harris Nicholas, K. H., includes extensive listing of retinues, 331–404.