Ordinance of Normandy
The Ordinance of Normandy is the name given to a paper attributed to
St. Paul's Cathedral in London by the Archbishop of Canterbury, John de Stratford.[2] The document was also exhibited in Parliament on 8 September 1346, which was summoned to vote supplies to the king, who was engaged in the Siege of Calais.[3] It was claimed that King Philip vowed to "destruire & anientier tote la Nation & la Lange Engleys" [destroy and ruin the entire English nation and country].[a][6] However some scholars believe the letter to have been forged.[7]
Notes
- Medieval French, the word langue/lange is used for a linguistic community and people or the territory where a language is spoken,[4][5] as for the langues of the Knights Hospitaller.
References
- ^ John Aberth, From the Brink of Apocalypse. Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages (Routledge, 2001), p. 74.
- ^ Anne Curry, The Hundred Years' War (Palgrave, 2003), p. 7.
- ^ Travers Twiss, ed. (1871). The Black Book of the Admiralty, with an Appendix. Vol. 1. London: Longman & Co., and Trübner & Co. p. 420. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "lange". Anglo-Norman Dictionary. 2008–2012. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "langue". Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500). 2015. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ISBN 9789027245472.
- ^ Deanne Williams, The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 18.