Jean Froissart and the Fabric of History : Truth, Myth, and Fiction in the Chroniques
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198158645
ISBN-13
9780198158646
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 1990
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
552 grams
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21.90 x 14.50 x 2.80 cms
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This study argues that the strength of Froissart's "Chroniques" lies as much in their textual richness and complexity as in their subject matter. Part one of the book examines medieval attitudes towards writing history, while the second part comprises a close-reading of texts from the "Chroniques".
Why do Froissart''s Chroniques still find enthusiastic readers six hundred years after they were written? In this fresh reading Peter Ainsworth shows that their strength lies as much in their textual richness and complexity as in their appealing subject matter: the exploits of French and English noblemen during the Hundred Years War. A record of international chivalry that pretends to the title of `history'', the Chroniques are in fact neither history nor romance, though they partake a little of both and are still valued by scholars as a historical source. Rather they constitute a variegated and enthralling narrative of vast proportions, veering from the historical to the outrageously fictional, from the journalistic travelogue to the moral tale, from self-effacement in the service of impartiality to unshamed self-celebration.
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