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Siege of Orleans and the Loire Campaign 1428-1429
Year 1428: The war between England and France has been raging for nearly one hundred years. The English control territory to the north of the Loire, but have no control of regions beyond the river. During the summer, Bedford decides to eliminate his enemy and besieges Orléans. From October 1428 to May 1429, fierce fighting continues around the town. The situation seems to be lost for the besieged, until the arrival of a young peasant girl named Joan. The exploits of the Maid of Orléans lead to the making of her legend. Inspired by her, the French rekindle their taste for victory and go from one success to another, until the decisive battle at Patay. This is an detailed, animated and richly illustrated book which enables the reader to relive these moments of great endeavor.
Châteaux forts
Aux yeux de l'homme moderne, le château fort constitue le monument emblématique des mille années d'histoire que nous avons coutume d'appeler " Moyen Age ". Dans l'imaginaire collectif, des chevaliers bardés de fer s'affrontent courtoisement toutes bannières déployées en d'interminables tournois, à l'ombre de massives tours crénelées. Les malheureux paysans traînent leur misère en curant le fond des douves, maudissant discrètement l'avidité sans borne d'une noblesse omnipotente. Derrière les épaisses murailles, le maître des lieux tient sa cour, exerce son pouvoir absolu, se livre à de gargantuesques ripailles en évoquant ses parties de chasse ou ses exploits guerriers. De ...
The Bayeux Tapestry
"In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has begun to consider issues beyond its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display." "This volume demonstrates the utility of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous artefact, especially with regard to newer concepts of gender, materiality, reception theory, cultural criticism, performativity, spatial narrative, New Historicism, and post-structuralism." "The essays frame vital issues for the future of Tapestry scholarship: they provide original perspectives, and engage with myriad critical concerns: the (New-) historical layering of meaning, representational systems of gender difference, visuality, memory and architecture, modern obsessions with author-like patronage, post-colonial notions of territory and saintly relics, and the function of historiography and media." "A bibliography of three centuries of critical writings completes the work." --Book Jacket.
Joan of Arc
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer, and Robert Bresson. Was she a divinely inspired saint? A schizophrenic? A demonically possessed heretic, as her persecutors and captors tried to prove? Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's extraordinary story in its own way, and in Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical inquisition and in the face of her death by burning. Deftly weaving historical fact, myth, folklore, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a compelling narrative, she restores Joan of Arc to her rightful position as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.
1066, Guillaume roi
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Annales de Normandie
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Guillaume le Conquérant
Près de mille ans après sa naissance, Guillaume de Normandie (v.1027-1087), dit aussi Guillaume le Conquérant ou Guillaume le Bâtard, mais qu'en Grande-Bretagne on nomme Guillaume 1er, reste un personnage controversé, fascinant et pourtant quelque peu insaisissable. Il ne subsiste de lui aucun portrait contemporain ; aucun historiographe ni compagnon d'armes n'a laissé de chronique consignant au jour le jour ses faits et gestes. Pourtant son destin a donné lieu à la plus célèbre œuvre d'art de l'Occident médiéval : la tapisserie dite de Bayeux qui relate en images comment le duc de Normandie a pu devenir roi d'Angleterre après la bataille de Hastings (1066) et asseoir une nouvelle dynastie.
Madame Bovary
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." - Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.
