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The Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War: Princely Parties’ Struggle for Control of State Power

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2018, (38), pp.5~34
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2018.02.38.5
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : January 12, 2018
  • Accepted : February 7, 2018
  • Published : February 28, 2018

Baik-Yong Sung 1

1한남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Armagnac-Burgundian civil war from 1410 to 1435, provoked by the assassination of Louis, duke of Orléans on the 23th November, 1407, originated from heated rivalries between the royal princes to acquire more financial resources in order to conduct ambitious expansionist policies and power strife. The struggle of the two ‘parties’ resulted in a vicious circle of hysterical political violence. As much as the political violence, what stood out in this civil war was an intense propaganda war, the so-called ‘battle of symbols and words’, with various symbols, slogans and inflammatory rhetoric. This civil war, as a watershed in terms of the integration of the French kingdom, thus showed new dynamics in the field of political culture. Not to mention the military strength, the princely parties needed to receive the support of public opinion, so they tried to win over influential supporters who could mobilize public opinion. It was certainly a new phenomenon that the politically overheated moods appeared, rearranging under the name of parties the various people including ordinary citizens as well as nobles and urban elites irrespective of their status and using physical and verbal violences against each other. It was also an event that heralded a change of direction of political struggle in the French kingdom that would be henceforward more and more open to public space and public opinion.

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