ABSTRACT

This article provides an analytical study of a group of earls in diplomatic processes in the mid fourteenth century, within a wider framework of diplomatic relations and political thinking on the role of the earls as important counsellors of the king. It aims to bridge a historiographical divide between diplomatic history and the history of the nobility in domestic political structures by demonstrating how the traditional role of the earls as the king’s foremost counsellors was integrated into the diplomatic processes which accompanied the onset of the Hundred Years’ War. It explores a pivotal aspect of the public lives of the fourteenth-century nobility, integrates their diplomatic service into the history of medieval diplomacy and highlights the middle years of the fourteenth century as a crucial period of intensifying aristocratic diplomatic service.

摘要

本文在一个广泛的外交关系和政治思想框架内，对伯爵作为国王重要顾问的作用进行了分析，对十四世纪中叶的伯爵集团进行了外交研究。它旨在通过证明伯爵作为国王最重要的顾问的传统作用是如何融入到伴随着百年战争的外交过程中来弥合外交史和国内政治结构中贵族史之间的史学鸿沟。它探索了14世纪贵族公共生活的关键方面，