France

Queen Isabella: A Gothic Tale

Derek Wilson looks at the life of a French princess, who married and helped depose an English king during a tumultuous period of Anglo-French relations that was to end in the Hundred Years War.

After Agincourt: Women and Pain

Christopher Allmand examines Alain Chartier’s Le Livre des Quatre Dames, a poem written in response to the English victory at Agincourt, and asks what it can tell us about the lives of women during this chapter in the Hundred Years War.

Joan of Arc born at Domrémy

The Maid of Orléans was born on January 6th 1412: she has been an incarnation of French national identity and pride for six centuries.