From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile or abjuration flourished in Western Europe. It was a form of exile meted out to felons for crimes for which they received sentences of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France explores the lives of the men and women who were condemned to this fate. William Chester Jordan *73 is a professor of history at Princeton.