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The Battle of Agincourt (St Albans Chronicle) Anonymous illuminator (St Albans Chronicle), 1422 Illuminated manuscript
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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.

πŸ›οΈ Part of history

The Hundred Years' War & Joan of Arc (1337–1453) 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.

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About the artist

Anonymous illuminator (St Albans Chronicle)

Unknown or anonymous artist

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.

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