This book explores the intersection of the Hundred Years' War and the production of vernacular literature in France and England. Reviewing a range of prominent works that address the war, including those by Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Gower, Langland, and Chaucer, as well as anonymous texts and the records of Joan of Arc's trial, Inscribing the Hundred Years' War In French and English Cultures demonstrates the ways in which late-medieval authors responded to the immediate sociopolitical pressures and participated in the debates about the war.

Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Gower, Langland, Chaucer, anonymous texts, and the records of Joan of Arc's trial are among the documents that mostly American scholars of literature examine to illuminate the intersection between the Hundred Years' War, 1337 to 1453, and the production of vernacular literature in the two belligerent countries. The topics include meed and the economics of chivalry in Piers Plowman, Lex Voeux du Heron as warmongering in verse, and the uncertainty in defining France as a nation in the works of Eustache Deschamps.
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