Debating the Hundred Years War: Volume 29: Pour ce que plusieurs (La Loy Salicque) And a declaration of the trew and dewe title of Henry VIII (Camden Fifth Series, Series Number 29) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521873908 ISBN 13: 9780521873901

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book presents an edition of two treatises that examine the legal issues that arose during the Hundred Years War, namely the laws governing the succession to the French crown, English claims to territories within France, and the responsibility for the breeches of various treaties and truces. The first treatise, Pour ce que plusieurs, was written in 1464 by a French diplomat and administrator, Guillaume Cousinot, and is most famous for its part in establishing the myth that the royal succession in France was determined by a otiose law code of the Franks, the Salic Law. The second is an English response to these arguments, A declaracion of the trew and dewe title of Henrie VIII, written during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547). The declaracion provides valuable evidence of English reactions to the rhetoric and propaganda generated by the French crown at the end of the middle ages.

About this title

Book Description:

This book presents an edition of two treatises that examine the legal issues that arose during the Hundred Years War, namely the laws governing the succession to the French crown, English claims to territories within France, and the responsibility for the breeches of various treaties and truces.

About the Author:

Dr Craig David Taylor is Lecturer at the University of York since 1998, having previously taught part-time at Oxford and Sheffield Universities. He is a fellow of the Société de l'Histoire de France and of the Royal Historical Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521873908
• ISBN 13: 9780521873901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Taylor Craig