The Battle of Agincourt (St Albans Chronicle)
Anonymous illuminator (St Albans Chronicle) Β· 1422
Why it's great
This medieval chronicle picture of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 was painted only a few years after the battle itself, in the chronicle of the monk Thomas Walsingham. English longbowmen shot down the charging French knights.
ποΈ Part of history
The Hundred Years' War & Joan of Arc (1337β1453) β This medieval chronicle picture of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 was painted only a few years after the battle itself, in the chronicle of the monk Thomas Walsingham.
Where to see it
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This picture of the Battle of Agincourt comes from the St Albans Chronicle, an English history written by the monk Thomas Walsingham. The illustrator is not known, but the manuscript was made soon after the events it shows, in the early 1420s.



