The Ancient Enemy: England, France and Europe from the Angevins to the TudorsBloomsbury Academic, 2007 - 174 strán (strany) This book traces the origins and evolution of the enmity between England and France over the four hundred years in which England was a continental European land power. The medieval claim to the throne of France was not formally abandoned by the British monarchy until 1802 and the so-called Hundred Years War between the two nations was never concluded by a peace treaty. The book argues that medieval and early modern England, like Britain today, was a two-faced polity: one face looked westward and northward towards its Celtic neighbours; the other faced eastward and southward towards continental Europe. Ultimately, from the reign of Edward III onwards, the French throne itself became the object of English ambitions and the book discusses the implications of Henry V's pursuit of that claim and its aftermath. It emphasizes the extent to which the story of Joan of Arc, for example, has become a myth which has contributed its share to the perpetuation of Anglo-French antipathy and estrangement. The book also examines the emergence of English national identity and the part played by language in this process, as the English increasingly defined themselves against their French enemy. But the common assumptions, behavioural patterns, and culture which bound the upper ranks of English and French society together throughout this period are also stressed. The book ends with a discussion of the legacy left by this ‘continentalist' phase of English history to the changed, but by no means totally transformed, world of early modern Europe. |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 3 z 27.
... Philip Augustus – above all , the inhabitants of the Channel Islands , who retained their loyalty to the English crown . But first , and most obviously , the loss of Normandy spelt the end of cross - Channel landholding by the Anglo ...
... Philip ( of Alsace ) , on the other . But a subordinate feudal relationship was set out in 1163 for , although Count Thierry had entered into the agreement quite willingly and freely , Henry II was described as his ' lord and friend ...
... Philip II , king of Spain 118 , 121 , 129 Philip III , king of France 12 , 87 Philip IV ( the Fair ) , king of France 9 , 13 , 39 , 40 , 64 , 66 , 85 Philippa of Hainaut , queen of England 87 Picardy 112 , 113 Picquigny , treaty of ...
Obsah
The Angevin Empire and the Kingdom of France | 23 |
Allies Mediators and the French Enemy | 59 |
Language and Culture | 73 |
Autorské práva | |
4 zvyšných častí nezobrazených