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19 giu 2024 · Cherbourg, the last English possession, fell on 12 August 1450. There were already fears that Charles VII would now turn his attention to English Gascony. The decision to call a parliament was thus inspired by two concerns: law and order in England, and the English position in France.
3 giorni fa · Starting in August 1417, Henry promoted the use of the English language in government and his reign marks the appearance of Chancery Standard English as well as the adoption of English as the language of record within government.
4 giorni fa · In the event, England was linked, economically and culturally, to France and continental Europe. The aristocracy spoke French, while Latin was the language of the church and the administration.
3 giorni fa · In 1450 proclamations against riotous meetings were issued at Colchester and Sudbury as well as other places in south-east England. Colchester does not seem to have been affected by Cade's rebellion in May that year, but in September over 100 men took up arms claiming that Cade was still alive.
4 giorni fa · I attempted to describe and discuss the experiences of all the major classes or groups in society. Surviving materials for a study of the English 'way of death' do however provide far richer and more varied testimony about the upper and middling ranks of society than about the lowest ones.
4 giorni fa · Glenn Richardson’s latest contribution to early modern Anglo-French relations comes in the form of this edited volume covering nearly three centuries of contact between England and France from 1420 to 1700. The Contending Kingdoms is essentially the proceedings of a Society for Court Studies conference which took place in London in ...
2 giorni fa · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
