Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Editor’s Preface
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- The Planctus on the Death of William Longsword (943) as a Source for Tenth-Century Culture in Normandy and Aquitaine (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2013)
- Biblical Vocabulary and National Discourse in Twelfth-Century England
- Border, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
- Guerno the Forger and His Confession
- From Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The Adoption and Routinization of Scottish Royal Charter Production for Lay Beneficiaries, 1124–1195
- Women and Power in the Roman de Rou of Wace
- Literacy and Estate Administration in a Great Anglo-Norman Nunnery: Holy Trinity, Caen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The King and His Sons: Henry II’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Succession Strategies Compared
- In vinea Sorech laborare: The Cultivation of Unity in Twelfth-Century Monastic Historiography
- The Redaction of Cartularies and Economic Upheaval in Western England c.996–1096
- Monastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period
- 1074 in the Twelfth Century
- Contents Of Volumes 1–34
Border, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Editor’s Preface
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- The Planctus on the Death of William Longsword (943) as a Source for Tenth-Century Culture in Normandy and Aquitaine (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2013)
- Biblical Vocabulary and National Discourse in Twelfth-Century England
- Border, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
- Guerno the Forger and His Confession
- From Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The Adoption and Routinization of Scottish Royal Charter Production for Lay Beneficiaries, 1124–1195
- Women and Power in the Roman de Rou of Wace
- Literacy and Estate Administration in a Great Anglo-Norman Nunnery: Holy Trinity, Caen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- The King and His Sons: Henry II’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Succession Strategies Compared
- In vinea Sorech laborare: The Cultivation of Unity in Twelfth-Century Monastic Historiography
- The Redaction of Cartularies and Economic Upheaval in Western England c.996–1096
- Monastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period
- 1074 in the Twelfth Century
- Contents Of Volumes 1–34
Summary
On 8 September 1435, at the peace conference held at Arras, the English delegates received from the French ambassadors a letter with their ‘last offers’ to put an end to the war between the two nations. The main condition was ‘that upon the part of England, there be a renunciation, sufficiently and for ever, of the title and right they advance to the crown of France’. In which case, the French king consented and agreed
that to the said king shall belong and shall remain in perpetual inheritance all that they held and occupy at present in the duchy of Guyenne; and likewise the duchy of Normandy, with all its appurtenances, honours and in all profits and emoluments whatsoever, to the manner in which the late Kings John and Charles V his son have held and possessed it as dukes.
The English ambassadors’ refusal to take this offer seriously caused the Arras meeting to fail and gave the duke of Burgundy a reason to ally with King Charles. This wasted opportunity may be considered a cause for the English discomfiture, which reached its conclusion fifteen years later, with the loss of all English possessions on the Continent, with the exception of Calais.
This little-known document is an appropriate introduction to this article because of its rather odd character. It is not common knowledge that the Hundred Years War could actually have resulted in a revival of the Anglo-Norman realm. For this reason, it is likely to arouse the curiosity of historians of the Anglo-Norman period. Indeed, the Arras proposal took place more than two centuries after the Capetian conquest of the duchy. During this long period of time, notwithstanding the Anglo-French war, it had become a matter of fact for European rulers that there were two well-established kingdoms occupying the two shores of the Channel. It has been often argued that the border between them was not only a question of political theory and sovereignty, or of language and national identity, but also something deeper, which affected culture, society and economy.
Two Kingdoms on Two Sides of an Economic Border
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 36Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2013, pp. 39 - 52Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014
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