ABSTRACT
Greene described the carol as ‘popular by destination, not by origin’; and this view of the repertory has persisted. Quite to the contrary, this chapter demonstrates the several of the earliest carols must have been composed for the court of King Henry V and particularly during the years between the Battle of Agincourt (1415) and the Treaty of Troyes (1420), by which Charles VI of France made Henry his regent and his heir to the throne of France.
