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Dec 31, 2016 · Dealing with the period 1420-1700, this collection offers a snapshot of Anglo-French relations across the three centuries from established historians and younger scholars from France, Britain and Luxembourg.
- 1st Edition
May 28, 2024 · The Contending Kingdoms is essentially the proceedings of a Society for Court Studies conference which took place in London in November 2004. The conference, and indeed this book, marked the centenary of the entente-cordiale signed by Britain and France in 1904.
The Contending Kingdoms: France and England 1420–1700 5 envisaged, the ‘united kingdom’ would have been, not England and Scotland, but rather England and France. In fact, although crowned king of France as a child, Henry VI witnessed the loss of all English territory in France apart from Calais by 1453.
- Anne Curry
Jul 14, 2010 · There are investigations of cultural transmission, usually from France to England. There are essays in comparative political analysis, usually pointing up the contrasts between a precociously centralized medieval England and an increasingly absolutist early modern France.
- Steven Gunn
- 2010
Introduction: the contending kingdoms: England and France 1420-1700, Glenn Richardson; 2 kingdoms, 1 king: the Treaty of Troyes (1420) and the creation of a double monarchy of England and France, Anne Curry; France and England at peace, 1475-1513, Charles Giry-Deloison
Jun 1, 2010 · We are left with the intriguing prospect of the treaty enacted, with a ‘united kingdom’ of England and France: ‘the history of Britain, France and Europe would have been very different’. Charles Giry-Deloison explores Anglo-French cultural interactions in the years of peace (1470–1513).
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