The article is devoted to the question of how and why the images of the British in French literary works of the Hundred Years War period received their reflection. The Hundred Years War became a catalyst for the formation of the French nation and national identity. French authors, whose works...
摘要: Table1: shares of direct and indirect taxation in England and France 1715-1790Table2: composition of taxes in EnglandTable3: life annuity borrowing from 1730-1789Table4: English government borrowing in wartimeTable5: the financial positions of France and England in 1788 in £ million...
Immerwahr, Raymond. «"Romantic" and its Cognates in England, Germany, and France before 1790», en «Romantic» and its Cognates. The European History of a Word, ed. Hans Eichner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, pags. 17-97....
Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, manoeuvring between the major powers of France and Spain. She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France, and Ireland. By the mid-1580s, England could no longer avoid war with ...
图书Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England 介绍、书评、论坛及推荐
During the First World War, Beith served as an officer in the army in France. His good-humoured account of army life, The First Hundred Thousand, published in 1915, was a best-seller. On the strength of this, he was sent to work in the information section of the British War Mission ...
’ Revolt (AKA Wat Tyler‘s Rebellion or the Great Rising), which had arisen for a variety of reasons, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s and the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years’ War....
spent between £1,500 and £2,500 (£250,000 to £400,000) each time he faced a contested election, much of it on paying for out-voters to attend, since his local popularity with voters slumped towards the end of the century, due to his strident support of war with France. ...
the British empire, formal and informal: to the European theatre of war, to North and South America, the Gulf, India, Mauritius, Burma, South‐East ... F Driver,L Martins - 《History Workshop Journal》 被引量: 13发表: 2002年 The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia During the late...
TheO’Byrneshad been allied toHugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, since the outbreak of the Nine Years’ War in 1593.Fiach McHugh O’Byrnehad worked together with O’Neill, so much that he is described as the earl’s “right arm inLeinster.” However, when Fiach is killed in 1597, the ...