To the Question of the Ethno-National Identity Formation During the Hundred Years War (France, 14th Century)

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of ethno-national identity in France during the Hundred Years War. The Hundred Years War acted as a catalyst for the development of the nation-states of England and France. A feature of the consolidation of ethnic identification in France during this period was the fact that its "regulator" was the royal power, for which ethnicity in itself was not of great importance, since the main thing was the relationship between the king and his subjects, obviously people of different ethnicity. The image of the enemies of the kingdom, the English, whose ties with the subjects of the French sovereign could be interpreted as a betrayal of the interests of the kingdom, contributed to the crystallization of the ethno-national identity of the French. Attention is drawn to the similarities and differences in the formation of ethno-national identity in the West and in Russia in 14th century.