Abstract EN:

The issue concerns the foreigner in the dukedom in the XIVth and XVth centuries, under the Montfort Dynasty, at the time when the “Britain State” was at its best. The first part states about the diversity of the situations and sets the problem in sociological terms. Then, in a second part, we have a closer look at the way the foreigner was considered by the Ducal power, as far as institutional and legislative practices were concerned. The third part deals with the speech and the imaginary aspect: it focuses on the vision and the representations of the foreigner in the Britain chronicals. The global apprehension of the foreigner in a princely state in search of independence proves delicate, since never in Britain was an only status born, being clearly defined. The study of the foreigner, omnipresent in the dukedom, does not make it possible to highlight the development of xenophobic feelings in a Brittany in search of identity and properly integrated in the patchwork of European peoples.