From England To France

Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176140
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From England to France written by William Chester Jordan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297857819
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Last War Against France written by Colin Smith and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Abram
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781843530565
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to France written by David Abram and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107089905
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500 written by Christopher Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed comparative study of how kings governed late-medieval France and England, analysing the multiple mechanisms of royal power.

Author : Catherine Hanley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217455
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis written by Catherine Hanley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Maps -- Tables -- Plates -- INTRODUCTION -- chapter one THE SHAPING OF A PRINCE -- chapter two FATHER AND SON -- chapter three THE INVITATION -- chapter four KING OF ENGLAND? -- chapter five THE TIDE TURNS -- chapter six FIGHTING BACK -- chapter seven THE END OF THE ADVENTURE -- chapter eight AFTERMATH -- chapter nine KING OF FRANCE -- chapter ten LEGACY -- CHRONOLOGY -- A NOTE ON SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Author : Stefan G. Holz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110645203
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages written by Stefan G. Holz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Mennell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064906
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Manners of Food written by Stephen Mennell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So close geographically, how could France and England be so enormously far apart gastronomically? Not just in different recipes and ways of cooking, but in their underlying attitudes toward the enjoyment of eating and its place in social life. In a new afterword that draws the United States and other European countries into the food fight, Stephen Mennell also addresses the rise of Asian influence and "multicultural" cuisine. Debunking myths along the way, All Manners of Food is a sweeping look at how social and political development has helped to shape different culinary cultures. Food and almost everything to do with food, fasting and gluttony, cookbooks, women's magazines, chefs and cooks, types of foods, the influential difference between "court" and "country" food are comprehensively explored and tastefully presented in a dish that will linger in the memory long after the plates have been cleared.

Author : Jean Froissart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries, written by Jean Froissart and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyril Connolly
Publisher : [London] : Deutsch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Movement written by Cyril Connolly and published by [London] : Deutsch. This book was released on 1965 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book Sir John Froissartʼs Chronicles of England, France and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward 2. to the Coronation of Henry 4. From the Best French Editions, with Variations and Additions from Many Celebrated Manuscripts. By Thomas Johnes. Vol. 1 [-4] written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: