in the Twelfth Century by R. W. SOUTHERN
Fellow of All Souls and Chichete Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford
2: Dreamers, rationalists and Perfidious Albion
National stereotypes appear early in the records of Anglo-French relations. It was argued that the English were greater dreamers than the French because their brains were moist and thus easily affected by wind in the stomach. But there were perhaps more prosaic reasons in French and English politics.