The Chronicles of Froissart
Author: Jean Froissart
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 524
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Author: Jean Froissart
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 524
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Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1978-04-27
Total Pages: 734
ISBN-13: 0141904569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys, Crecy, Calais and Poitiers during the Hundred Years War. Yet they are only part of this vigorous portrait of medieval life, which also vividly describes the Peasants' Revolt, trading activities and diplomacy against a backdrop of degenerate nobility. Written with the same sense of curiosity about character and customs that underlies the works of Froissart's contemporary, Chaucer, the Chronicles are a magnificent evocation of the age of chivalry.
Author: Jean Froissart
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 830
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chronicle of the history of England, France, Spain, and other countries, between the reigns of Edward II and Henry IV.
Author: Jehan Le Bel
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1843836947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven as a canon, he lived in princely style, with a retinue of two knights and forty squires, and he wrote at the request of John of Hainault, the uncle of queen Philippa. He was thus able to draw directly on the verbal accounts of the Crécy campaign given to him by soldiers from Hainault who had fought on both sides; and his description of warfare in Scotland is the most realistic account of what it was like to be on campaign that survives from this period.
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 0141970871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers 'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom of heaven in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. This remarkable collection brings together a wide variety of contemporary accounts of the First Crusade, including Pope Urban II's initial call to arms of 1095, as well as the first-hand writings of priests, knights, a Jewish pilgrim, a destitute noblewoman, an Iraqi poet and the historian Anna Comnena. Together they provide a vivid and nuanced picture of the First Crusade and the people who were swept up in it. Edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Tyerman
Author: Peter Edmund Thompson
Publisher: London : Folio Society
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 394
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 524
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Curry
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1843836742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.
Author: Jean Froissart
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780815303299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough best known for his "Chronicles," Froissart was also one of the great poets of the 14th century. The first and perhaps most important disciple of Machaut, he produced courtly narrative "dits," an enormous Arthurian romance ("M liador"), and numerous lyrics. La Prison Amoureuse is probably the most important of his narrative "dits." Inspired by Machaut's "Le Voir Dit," the Prison presents a literary correspondence between a poet and patron, whose names are hidden behind allegorical pseudonyms. The Prison cleverly intercalates the men's prose letters to each other, as well as their lyric compositions, into its narrative frame. Critics have read the work as everything from pure fancy and courtly fluff to a recreation of the letters exchanged between Froissart and his patron, Wenceslas of Luxemburg, during the latter's captivity of 1372. The very difficulty of interpretation makes the "Prison "of importance to scholars interested in the relationship between artists and patrons, and the place of literature in society, during the Hundred Years War. This new edition also provides the first English translation of a major work by a writer who almost certainly knew and influenced Chaucer.
Author: John Jolliffe
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 057129023X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chronicles of Jean Froissart (1337-1410) are universally acknowledged as the most vivid and faithful account of 14th century events and ideas. This medieval collector of intelligence travelled widely from Scotland and Wales to France, Italy and the Netherlands, conversing with gentlemen of rank everywhere and developing a tremendous skill for persuading those about him to divulge their secrets. These Chronicles offer an unrivalled picture of the age of chivalry, drawn by a contemporary, with a verve that recalls Chaucer. Fresh, vivid, immediate and laced with a certain disrespect for the Establishment, they tell of acts of gallantry, tournaments, feasts and wars that make for fascinating reading, abetted by John Jolliffe's translation that renders Froissart into highly accessible modem English.