From England to France

From England to France
Author: William Chester Jordan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400866391

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile—or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood. William Chester Jordan weaves a breathtaking historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. Jordan vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons. From England to France provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War.

England's Last War Against France

England's Last War Against France
Author: Colin Smith
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0297857819

Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42. Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than this. Under the terms of its armistice with Nazi Germany, the unoccupied part of France and its substantial colonies were ruled from the spa town of Vichy by the government of Marshal Philip Petain. Between July 1940 and November 1942, while Britain was at war with Germany, Italy and ultimately Japan, it also fought land, sea and air battles with the considerable forces at the disposal of Petain's Vichy French. When the Royal Navy sank the French Fleet at Mers El-Kebir almost 1,300 French sailors died in what was the twentieth century's most one-sided sea battle. British casualties were nil. It is a wound that has still not healed, for undoubtedly these events are better remembered in France than in Britain. An embarrassment at the time, France's maritime massacre and the bitter, hard-fought campaigns that followed rarely make more than footnotes in accounts of Allied operations against Axis forces. Until now.

The Rough Guide to France

The Rough Guide to France
Author: David Abram
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 1354
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781843530565

From cosmopolitan Paris to the sunny Cote d'Azur, from historical Normandy to the rocky Pyrenes, this new edition updates the best of towns, attractions, and landscapes of every region. 100 maps. of color photos.

The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages

The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Stefan G. Holz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3110645203

In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England, France, Germany and Singapore demonstrate in 11 contributions how this approach can increase our understanding of the rolls and their contents, as well as the contexts in which they were produced and used.

Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800

Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800
Author: David Adams
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780754655916

What was the relationship between power and the public sphere in early modern society? How did the printed media inform this relationship? Contributors to this volume address those questions by examining the interaction of print and power in France and England during the 'hand-press period'. The central themes covered in this volume include reading and control; propaganda and its (re-)uses; the Academy; and clientism and faction.

The Familiar Enemy

The Familiar Enemy
Author: Ardis Butterfield
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2009-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191610305

The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d'Arc and by Shakespeare's Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, 'Anglo-Norman', English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French 'jargon', including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d'Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what 'English' might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from 'French', and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.

Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500

Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500
Author: Christopher Fletcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2015-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107089905

A detailed comparative study of how kings governed late-medieval France and England, analysing the multiple mechanisms of royal power.

The Contending Kingdoms

The Contending Kingdoms
Author: Glenn Richardson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754657897

This collection of essays explores the Anglo-French diplomatic, cultural and dynastic relations during the early modern period and examines just how close early modern England's connections with France were, even at times of crisis.

The Hundred Years War

The Hundred Years War
Author: C. T. Allmand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1988-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521319232

A comparative study of how the societies of late medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them from political, military, social and economic perspectives.