In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English army’s successful raids.

In a surge of creativity between 1595 and 1599, William Shakespeare wrote not only comedies, including “The Merchant of ...

The next few days will be the anniversary of one of the most important battles in the English-speaking world. This was the brutal encounter on the field of Agincourt on the Feast of St. Crispin, Oct.

Barker, a British biographer (The Brontës) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle ...

Netflix has now released The King, its new imagining of Henry V starring Timothee Chalamet as the bowlcut-sporting English king. As any Shakespeare fans know, the Henry V story reaches its peak of ...

Henry V's nine-year reign saw a flourishing of royal authority and military action but ended abruptly with his untimely death in 1422 Photos via Netflix and iStock; Photo Illustration by Meilan Solly ...

Experts on the Battle of Agincourt gathering at the University of Southampton to mark its 600th anniversary will hear new evidence suggesting Henry V's naval fleet, used to transport troops, was much ...

Henry V (Michael Thatcher) wooing wooing French Princess Katherine (Madison Prentiss). Credit: Photo by Anthony Gollab, Courtesy of the University of Houston Shakespeare’s great war pageant Henry V ...