Papers by Joseph de Durfort
From the Babylonian exile of the Jews to contemporary research into mass immigration, exile has p... 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.
Drafts by Joseph de Durfort
Dissertation, 2019
Most historians have seen 1435 as a prominent date of the fifteenth century, either because of th... 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.
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Papers by Joseph de Durfort
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.
Drafts by Joseph de Durfort
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.