Debating the Hundred Years War
Debating the Hundred Years War
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USDThis book presents an edition of two treatises that examine the legal issues that arose during the Hundred Years War, namely the laws governing the succession to the French crown, English claims to territories within France, and the responsibility for the breeches of various treaties and truces. The first treatise, Pour ce que plusieurs, was written in 1464 by a French diplomat and administrator, Guillaume Cousinot, and is most famous for its part in establishing the myth that the royal succession in France was determined by a otiose law code of the Franks, the Salic Law. The second is an English response to these arguments, A declaracion of the trew and dewe title of Henrie VIII, written during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547). The declaracion provides valuable evidence of English reactions to the rhetoric and propaganda generated by the French crown at the end of the middle ages.
- The first edition of these important texts, one of which is completely unknown to modern scholars
- The texts are of interest to scholars working on political and military history of the Hundred Years War and the reign of Henry VIII, as well as wider questions of national identity and patriotism
- Provides extremely valuable evidence of the English reactions to the rhetoric and propaganda generated by the French crown at the end of the middle ages
Product details
March 2007Hardback
9780521873901
318 pages
223 × 147 × 22 mm
0.502kg
3 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Editorial principles
- Pour ce que plusieurs
- A declaracion of the trewe and dewe title of Henry VIII
- Appendix I: College of Arms of Ms Arundel 39 (MS T)
- Appendix II: Manuscript descriptions
- Appendix III: A lost manuscript of Pour ce que plusieurs
- index.
