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Jeanne d'Arc
Dans le royaume de France, la guerre oppose depuis presque cent ans les Français aux anglais. Le nouveau roi d'Angleterre, Henri V de Lancastre menace de débarquer. Charles VI, le roi de France, ne peut résister, car depuis 1392 il est devenu fou. Les princes français les plus puissants exercent le pouvoir à leur profit. En 1407, le frère du roi, Louis d'orléans, est assassiné par le duc de Bourgogne. Ces ambitions rivales conduisent à une véritable guerre civile qui oppose les Armagnacs aux Bourguignons. Chacun appelle les Anglais à son secours. A Azincourt, le 25 Octobre 1415, les anglais sont victorieux de la noblesse française. En 1420, au traité de Troyes, le royaume de France est promis au roi d'Angleterre. Alors paraît Jeanne d'Arc.
Medieval Crime and Social Control
Crime is a matter of interpretation, and never was this truer than in the Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was -- and what was a crime. This collection undertakes a thorough exploration of shifting definitions of crime and changing attitudes toward social control in medieval Europe. These essays reveal how various forces in medieval society interacted and competed in interpreting and influencing mechanisms for social control. Drawing on a wide range of historical and literary sources -- legal treatises, court cases, statutes, poems, romances, and comic tales -- the contributors consider topics including fear of crime, rape and violence against women, revenge and condemnations of crime, learned dispute about crime and social control, and legal and political struggles over hunting rights.
Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France
Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. Analysing texts ranging from romances, political allegories, chivalric biographies, and catalogues of famous men and women, through saints’ lives, mystery plays and Books of Hours, to works of Roman, canon and customary law, these studies offer new insights into the diverse ways in which the language and imagery of politics and justice permeated French culture, particularly in the late...
Une histoire de France
En 2013 était lancée la ligne des « Histoires personnelles de France » avec l’ouvrage de Bruno Dumézil, Des Gaulois aux Carolingiens. L’ambition affichée est alors de donner carte blanche à un panel de spécialistes, un par période, pour constituer une histoire de France non seulement la plus juste scientifiquement, mais aussi la plus abordable. Les sept volumes de la collection ont été ici réunis, formant un récit vivant et d’une cohérence impeccable. De cette continuité entre les récits de chacun ressort clairement qu’il n’existe qu’une histoire de France, complexe et articulée, faite de mouvements plutôt que de moments, dont les contours sont connus et admis ; seuls les angles d’approche varient, et c’est dans cette subjectivité que réside la force de l’ensemble coordonné par Claude Gauvard.
La France au Moyen Âge du Ve au XVe siècle
Quels sont les événements historiques qui inaugurent, jalonnent et clôturent le Moyen Âge français ? Comment un ensemble de régions dominées par les Francs devient-il progressivement le royaume de France ? Quelles sont les valeurs sur lesquelles s’est construite la société médiévale et quelle a été leur évolution ? Parcourant mille ans d’histoire française dans un style clair et précis, Claude Gauvard visite la France médiévale, de la fin de l’Empire romain d’Occident jusqu’au crépuscule du XVe siècle. Évoquant tour à tour les aspects économiques, politiques, mais aussi sociaux et culturels de la France médiévale, l’historienne démontre avec brio à quel point cette période, éloignée des stéréotypes négatifs issus de la Renaissance, a ses valeurs propres fondées sur l’honneur, tout en préfigurant déjà l’État moderne.
A Punishment for Each Criminal
A Punishment for Each Criminal is the first in-depth analysis of how gender influenced Swedish medieval law. Christine Ekholst demonstrates how the law codes gradually and unevenly introduced women as possible perpetrators for all serious crimes. The laws reveal that legislators not only expected men and women to commit different types of crimes; they also punished men and women in different ways if they were convicted. The laws consistently stipulated different methods of executions for men and women; while men were hanged or broken on the wheel, women were buried alive, stoned, or burned at the stake. A Punishment for Each Criminal explores the background to the important legislative changes that took place when women were made personally responsible for their own crimes.
Equally in God's Image
Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages is a volume of essays presenting the argument that with the coming of the universities women were excluded, in an apartheid of gender, from education and power. It discusses the resulting paradigm shift from Romanesque to Gothic, describing the images which women had of themselves and which the dominant male society had of them. We meet, in the pages of this book, medieval women in their roles as writers, pilgrims, wives, anchoresses and nuns, at court, on pilgrimage, in households and convents. The volume, as a «Distant Mirror» for ourselves today, seeks to present ways in which women then fulfilled the roles society expected of them and the ways in which they also subverted - through entering into textuality - the expectations of the dominating culture in order to quest identity and equality.
Condamner à mort au Moyen Âge
« Digne de mourir, comme inutile au monde » : c’est en ces termes que les archives ont conservé la trace de la condamnation à mort d’un valet déclaré coupable de vol, à Paris, en 1391. Est-ce là une simple tournure de phrase destinée à la postérité, ou cette expression traduit-elle la réalité d’un jugement considérant l’« utilité au monde » comme un prérequis au droit de vivre ? Et ce « monde », est-il celui du roi, qui affirme ainsi son pouvoir sur ses sujets, ou celui d’une chrétienté qui ne considère plus que le criminel peut être racheté ? Condamner à mort au Moyen Âge n’est pas un acte plus anodin qu’aujourd’hui. Il n’est pas non plus, sembl...
Imagining Early Modern Histories
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations ...
The Consumption of Justice
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law. Daniel Lord Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.
