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Author | : Ardis Butterfield |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191610305 |
Download The Familiar Enemy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Christopher Fletcher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107089905 |
Download Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A detailed comparative study of how kings governed late-medieval France and England, analysing the multiple mechanisms of royal power.
Author | : Colin Smith |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0297857819 |
Download England's Last War Against France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Charles (d'Orléans) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Download England and France in the Fifteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Robert Tombs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2010-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781446426241 |
Download That Sweet Enemy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Arthur Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Download The Example of France, a Warning to Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Glenn Richardson |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754657897 |
Download The Contending Kingdoms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Robert Tombs |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 2009-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307547981 |
Download That Sweet Enemy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship—rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection—and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Written with wit and elegance, and illustrated with delightful images and cartoons from both sides of the Channel, That Sweet Enemy is a unique and immensely enjoyable history, destined to become a classic.
Author | : Itay Lotem |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2021-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030637190 |
Download The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking thereof. Examining memory through the stories of people who incited public conversation on colonialism: activists; politicians; journalists; and professional historians, this book argues that these actors mobilised the colonial past to make sense of national identity, race and belonging in the present. In focusing on memory as an ongoing, politicised public debate, the book examines the afterlife of colonial history as an element of political and social discourse that depends on actors’ goals and priorities. A thought-provoking and powerful read that explores the divisive legacies of colonialism through oral history, this book will appeal to those researching imperialism, collective memory and cultural identity.
Author | : Renaud Morieux |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107039495 |
Download The Channel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.