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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile-or abjuration-flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood.William Chester Jordan weaves a breathtaking historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. Jordan vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons.From England to France provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War

In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin argues that the aristocrats who inhabited the region of Paris over the turn of the twelfth century were important not only because they contributed to Philip Augustus's increase of royal power but also for their own establishment as an elite and powerful social class.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION -- PREFACE (1997) -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE PROBLEM: PLOWDEN'S REPORTS -- II. THE SHAKESPEARE: KING RICHARD II -- III. CHRIST-CENTERED KINGSHIP -- 1. The Norman Anonymous -- 2. The Frontispiece of the Aachen Gospels -- 3. The Halo of Perpetuity -- IV. LAW-CENTERED KINGSHIP -- 1. From Liturgy to Legal Science -- 2. Frederick the Second -- Pater et Filius Iustitiae -- Iustitia Mediatrix -- 3. Bracton -- Rex infra et supra Legem -- Christus-Fiscus -- V. POLITY-CENTERED KINGSHIP: CORPUS MYSTICUM -- 1. Corpus Ecclesiae mysticum -- 2. Corpus Reipublicae mysticum -- 3. Pro patria mori -- Patria religious and legal -- Patriotic Propaganda -- Rex et Patria -- VI. ON CONTINUITY AND CORPORATIONS -- 1. Continuity -- Aevum -- Perpetua Necessitas -- 2. Fictio Figura Veritatis -- Imperium semper est -- Universitas non moritur -- VII. THE KING NEVER DIES -- 1. Dynastic Continuity -- 2. The Crown as Fiction -- Corona visibilis et invisibilis -- The Fiscal Crown -- Inalienability -- Crown and Universitas -- The King and the Crown -- The Crown a Minor -- 3. Dignitas non moritur -- Phoenix -- Corporational Symptoms in England -- Le Roy est mort... -- Effigies -- Rex Instrumentum Dignitatis -- VIII. MAN-CENTERED KINGSHIP: DANTE -- IX. EPILOGUE -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX -- ADDENDA.