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

by Craig Taylor

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521873901
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Series:	Camden Fifth Series , #29
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	5.79(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.87(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Editorial principles; Pour ce que plusieurs; A declaracion of the trewe and dewe title of Henry VIII; Appendix I: College of Arms of Ms Arundel 39 (MS T); Appendix II: Manuscript descriptions; Appendix III: A lost manuscript of Pour ce que plusieurs; index.