Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research
IRHiS (UMR 8529) - Université de Lille
Abstract: This article deals with the use of a language of disinheritance in the coup d'état by which Henry Bolingbroke overthrew Richard II in 1399. This rhetoric is placed in the context of its importance in informal political ideas. It... more
Abstract: The first publication to come out of my thesis, this article argues that an analysis of late medieval concepts of the nature of men and of youths permits a new interpretation of the political events of the reign of Richard II... more
Abstract: Why was the behaviour of courtiers such a concern in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries? Historians often take contemporary remarks about the excesses of the court and the immorality of its members as simple observations of... more
Abstract: This article considers a number of texts which historians of medieval England have had difficulty in categorising: poems which are sometimes referred to as ‘satirical’, and which criticize royal officeholders, often, in... more
Abstract: The personalities and careers of Charles VI and Richard II are often considered to have been very different, notably in their attitude toward war: the one fascinated by chivalric activity, the other little interested in such... more
Résumé : Depuis le début du XXe siècle, et les œuvres de Ernst Kantorowicz et Marc Bloch, les historiens politiques médiévaux ont reconnu la nécessité de considérer en parellèle la religion et la politique. Pourtant, au niveau de... more
Résumé : En 1376, les « Commons » du Parlement anglais, les représentants de la petite noblesse des comtés et les élites urbaines, montent sur le devant de la scène pour la première fois en tant que véritables acteurs politiques. Il est... more
Abstract: Recent research has taken a critical approach to community, emphasizing how communities define themselves by those they excluded as much as by those they included. Surprisingly, despite the centrality of the concept of... more
Abstract : Historians who have considered the theme of the common good in the late medieval England have tended to argue that the language of the ‘common profit’ was too vague and undefined in the fourteenth century to play a significant... more
Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly reputation. Over the centuries, he has been habitually associated with lavish courtly expenditure, absolutist ideas, Francophile tendencies, and a love of peace, all of... more
Abstract: Late medieval English kings operated in an increasingly public political society. Monarchs found it expedient to persuade their people of the rectitude of their policies, and the English public found ways to express their... more