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Chronicles de Jean Froissart

Chronicles

Autor Jean Froissart Editat de Geoffrey Brereton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 1978
The chronicles of Froissart are one of the greatest contemporary records of 14th-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edwards II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys, Crecy, Calais and Poitiers during the Hundred Years War.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140442007
ISBN-10: 0140442006
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: map, index
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Jean Froissart was born in Valenciennes (c.1337) and came to England in 1361 where he joined the entourage of Edward III's Queen. While in England he travelled to Scotland and the Welsh Marshes and to the Continent seveal times, finally settling in the Netherlands on the death of the Queen. He finally took holy orders, before returning to England in the court of Richard II, whose downfall he recorded in 1399. His first book of the Chroniques was published in three versions, the second book was completed by 1388 and the third in 1390. He was still working on the fourth when he died c.1410.


Geoffrey Brereton edited and translated several modern dramatists including Claudel, Sartre and Adamov, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1979.

Cuprins

ChroniclesIntroduction Acknowledgments The Chronological Background

Book One (1322-77) Prologue The Beginning of a Reign Deposition of Edward II and Accession of Edward III The Scots Invade England Edward III Does Homage to Philip VI Preliminaries of the Hundred Years War Battle of Sluys The Order of the Garter The Campaign of Crecy The Siege of Calais Black Death, Flagellants and Jews Sea Battle off Winchelsea The Siege of Breteuil and the Poitiers Campaign Consequences of Poitiers The Three Estates; the Free Companies The Jacquerie The Last Days of Étienne Marcel Brigandry, Warfare and Predictions King John's Return to England and His Death The Battle of Montiel and Death of Peter the Cruel The Sack of Limoges The Turn of the Tide Du Guesclin Appointed Constable La Rochelle Goes Over to the French John of Gaunt's Fruitless Expedition The End of a Reign

Book Two (1376-85) Papal Affairs and the Great Schism The Great Schism The Peasants' Revolt in England Affairs of Flanders Battle of Roosebeke Charles VI Marries Isabella of Bavaria

Book Three (1386-8) At the Court of the Count of Foix The Haunting of Sir Peter Reminiscences of the Bascot de Mauléon, Freebooter The Tale of the Familiar Preparations for a French Invasion of England Trial by Combat Richard II's First Struggle with His Uncles John of Gaunt's Expedition to Spain The Battle of Otterburn (Chevy Chase)

Book Four (1389-1400) Queen Isabella's Entry into Paris A Royal Visitation Tournament at Saint-Inglevert The Duke of Touraine in Trouble The Death of the Count of Foix Charles VI Goes Mad Froissart Revisits England The English in Ireland Two Marriages The Downfall of Richard II The Murder of Gloucester The Challenge and Bolingbroke's Banishment Richard loses Control The Return of Bolingbroke The Surrender of King Richard Richard's Abdication Coronation of Bolingbroke Plots against Henry IV The End of Richard of Bordeaux

Notes in Form of Glossary Map: France and Neighbouring Territories in the Fourteenth Century Index of Persons