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January 2015

Vol. 51 John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’

Purchase this volume Edition from London, British Library MS Egerton 1995. Joanna Bellis (ed.)  John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’ is an eyewitness narrative account of Henry V’s siege of Normandy’s capital in 1418–19. The text is unique in English verse of the fifteenth century in providing a first-hand narrative of a significant event in contemporary warfare. The poet was… Read More »Vol. 51 John Page’s ‘The Siege of Rouen’