Anglo-French Peace Conferences in the Twelfth Century

Benham, Jenny

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“…1 J. E. M. Benham has paid some attention to the Gisors elm as one of a number of customary sites of Franco-Norman peacemaking. 2 The 1188 meeting occurred in the midst of one of the many bouts of armed conflict between the Capetian monarch Philip II and his Plantagenet rivals, Henry II (until his death in 1189) and his sons Richard I and John. 3 The western half of France had been in Plantagenet hands for several decades.…”

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Hewing the Ancient Elm: Anger, Arboricide, and Medieval Kingship

Diggelmann¹

2010

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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In 1188, an eye-catching display of royal anger resulted in the destruction of the ancient elm tree at Gisors by Philip II of France. Building on recent reappraisals of anger and other emotions in the medieval context, this essay seeks to understand how contemporary observers may have interpreted their monarch's momentous outburst. The elm's longstanding significance as a site of diplomacy and peace negotiations in the border zone between France and Normandy makes its downfall especially symbolic, and suggests that the deliberate display of emotional excess may be an under-appreciated factor in the history of medieval diplomatic encounters. Examining chronicle sources and later literary renditions of the incident, retold from both French and an Anglo-Norman perspectives, the article reveals how medieval commentators made use of a rich emotional vocabulary in order either to celebrate or to deplore Philip's act of arboricide.

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Hewing the Ancient Elm: Anger, Arboricide, and Medieval Kingship

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2010

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Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066–1216

Oksanen

2012

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The union of Normandy and England in 1066 recast the political map of western Europe and marked the beginning of a new era in the region's international history. This book is a groundbreaking investigation of the relations and exchanges between the county of Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm. Among other important themes, it examines Anglo-Flemish diplomatic treaties and fiefs, international aristocratic culture, the growth of overseas commerce, immigration into England and the construction of new social and national identities. The century and a half between the conquest of England by the duke of Normandy and the conquest of Normandy by the king of France witnessed major revolutions in European society, politics and culture. This study explores the history of England, northern France and southern Low Countries in relation to each other during this period, giving fresh perspectives to the historical development of north-western Europe in the Central Middle Ages.

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Anglo-French Peace Conferences in the Twelfth Century

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Hewing the Ancient Elm: Anger, Arboricide, and Medieval Kingship

Hewing the Ancient Elm: Anger, Arboricide, and Medieval Kingship

Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066–1216

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