Chronicles (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Froissart
- First Published: 1523
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1316-1399
- Setting: England and Western Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: France or French people, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, Middle Ages, Knights or knighthood, Chess or chess players, Hundred Years’ War
- Locales: Europe, England
Critical Evaluation:
Jean Froissart, by being so much of his age, became a writer for all time. This unpriestly priest, this citizen celebrator of chivalry took such an intense joy in chronicling his times that he devoted an entire half-century to traveling, interviewing, writing, and rewriting. He interviewed more than two hundred princes in various courts from Rome and the Pyrenees to Edinburgh, and with such zest that he was a favorite of the nobles on both sides in the Hundred Years’ War. In his own time his works were widely copied and illuminated.
Although he...
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