Joseph de Durfort
University of Cambridge, Medieval History, Graduate Student
- Trinity College Dublin, History Political Science, Undergraduateadd
- Reading Medieval History at Cambridge University, I majored in history at Trinity College Dublin in 2019. Interested in the Late Medieval Period, I am currently writing a dissertation on the Gascon immigration to England post 1453, under the supervision of Dr. Paul Cavill and Professor Nora Berend. Previously, under the supervision of Professor Philippe Buc (University of Vienna), I wrote a first dissertation on t... moreReading Medieval History at Cambridge University, I majored in history at Trinity College Dublin in 2019. Interested in the Late Medieval Period, I am currently writing a dissertation on the Gascon immigration to England post 1453, under the supervision of Dr. Paul Cavill and Professor Nora Berend. Previously, under the supervision of Professor Philippe Buc (University of Vienna), I wrote a first dissertation on the political identity of Paris during the Armagnac-Burgundian civil war in the Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris. Last year, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin), I wrote on the medieval views of the treaty of Arras (1435).edit
From the Babylonian exile of the Jews to contemporary research into mass immigration, exile has proven a question of perennial interest and importance. The historical study of exiles, of people who were forced to emigrate from their... more
From the Babylonian exile of the Jews to contemporary research into mass immigration, exile has proven a question of perennial interest and importance. The historical study of exiles, of people who were forced to emigrate from their original community, allows us to rethink not only how integration was understood in the past, but also how people from different geographical spaces perceived one another and interacted. This thesis is concerned with the exile of a group of Gascon nobles who left Aquitaine for England following political and economic disturbances in the mid-fifteenth century.
A special thank you to Professor Nora Berend (St. Catherine's College) and Dr. Paul Cavill (Pembroke College) from Cambridge Univesity who supervised my Masters Thesis and helped me through my research.
A special thank you to Professor Nora Berend (St. Catherine's College) and Dr. Paul Cavill (Pembroke College) from Cambridge Univesity who supervised my Masters Thesis and helped me through my research.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Most historians have seen 1435 as a prominent date of the fifteenth century, either because of the immediate significance of the event, or because of its political consequences. However, a great number of fifteenth century chronicles seem... more
Most historians have seen 1435 as a prominent date of the fifteenth century, either because of the immediate significance of the event, or because of its political consequences. However, a great number of fifteenth century chronicles seem to say otherwise. Some chroniclers, such as the author of the Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, our best contemporary source for the views of the inhabitants of the capital, barely mention the Congress. Other writers who discuss the event such as Enguerrand de Monstrelet, only did so in order to relate in detail its pomp and scale. Very few chroniclers perceived it as a decisive moment in the war, and even less as politically significant. This paper will therefore explore this evident dichotomy of opinion. The silence of the chroniclers has been eluded for too long and must be taken into account in order for us to understand the full political significance of the Congress of Arras.