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Jean Froissart
Froissart, Jean
Froissart, Jean (
c.1337–
c.1410) Flemish poet and court historian. His four
Chroniques provide a detailed, often eye-witness account of European events from 1325 to 1400. His first book copied the work of an earlier chronicler, Jean le Bel (
c.1290–
c.1370). The others, drawn from extensive travels, especially to the English court, provide an account of events during the
HUNDRED YEARS WAR.
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Jean Froissart: Chroniques, livre III: Le manuscrit Saint-Vincent de Besancon.(EDITIONS OF TEXTS)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; Jean Froissart: Chroniques, livre III: Le manuscrit...now, the specialist in the works of Froissart. The only complete edition, until very...series, become formidably expert in Froissart's own works and manuscripts, and in...
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TECHNIQUE POETIQUE, DISCOURS TECHNIQUE: L'ORLOGE AMOUREUS DE JEAN FROISSART.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Auteur celebre des Chroniques, Jean Froissart (ca.1335-1400) a aussi laisse...embellissement poetique que Froissart a du les tirer d'une inspection...vecue" du celebre chroniqueur, Jean Froissart.(1) La representation de l...
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Deadly words, captive imaginations: women and poetic creation in Jean Froissart's Prison Amoureuse.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Jean Froissart's Prison Amoureuse (c. 1372), a...subject, literary creation, is for Froissart the domain of men. However, this essay...in the Prison Amoureuse [...] [Froissart] depicts the narrator as jealous not...
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Pseudo-autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer...naming of Guillaume and Jean de Meun as authors by...the yetto-be-born Jean. It finally re-emerges...reference, is to misread Froissart's relationship to the...
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Jean Froissart: 'La Prison amoureuse' ('The Prison of Love').
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...nothing new. The `Artistic achievement' and `Sources and influences' sections look at the question of the literariness of Froissart's composition, relating it to the tradition of Machaut's writing, especially in the Voir Dit. In this the editor adopts...
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L'épanouissement de l'histoire au quinzième siècle en France
Magazine article from: Fifteenth Century Studies; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Peter F. Ainsworth (Froissart), Nicole Ghareyron (Jean le Bel), Danick...Thrse de Medeiros (Froissart), Emily Springer...soutenances, dont celles de Jean Claude Faucon sur...ordonn et compos. Jean Froissart dclare qu'il a voulu...
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Dynamic Dichotomy: The Poetic `I' in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...works by Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, Eustache Deschamps, Christine...devoted, respectively, to Machaut, Froissart, Deschamps, and Christine. Although...intervening person or written text. With Froissart, the opposition is temporal...
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Sian Echard. Printing the Middle Ages.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Bevis of Hampton, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Jean Froissart. The final chapter--"The Ghost in the Machine...love, and the quite astonishing transformation of Jean Froissart from a fourteenth-century French historian from Hainault...
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Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretation in Medieval French Literature.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...works of Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart, Blumenfeld-Kosinski examines how these two authors outstrip even Jean de Meun in treating myth as fictive...s work is that the section on Jean Froissart could have been much more detailed...
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Erratum. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2002; 305 words
; ...from History (May 2002) the impression was given that Jean Froissart was a French author who wrote the Anominalle Chronicle...in Valenciennes, Hainault, a town in France today, Froissart career was spent in England and in the Low Countries...
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Jean Froissart
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jean Froissart The French priest, poet, and itinerate reporter Jean Froissart (c. 1337-c.1404) is known primarily...picture of 14th-century feudal life. Jean Froissart was born in Valenciennes. Educated...
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Froissart, Jean
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Froissart, Jean ( c. 1337– c. 1410) Flemish poet and court historian. His...1325 to 1400. His first book copied the work of an earlier chronicler, Jean le Bel ( c. 1290– c. 1370). The others, drawn from extensive...
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Froissart
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Froissart. Concert-ov., Op.19, by Elgar comp. for and f.p. at Worcester...enthusiasm for the historical romances and Chronicles of the Fr. writer Jean Froissart (1337–1410). Score is headed by Keats quotation ‘...
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Edward the Black Prince
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...with the political situation in England. Further Reading The primary sources on the Black Prince are Jean Froissart, The Chronicle of Froissart, translated by Sir John Bourchier (6 vols., 1901-1903; repr. 1967); The Life of the Black...
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Sleidanus, Johannes (Johannes Philippi; 1506–1556)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...University of Orl é ans, publishing a translation of Jean Froissart's Chroniques (1537), and entering into the service...Philippe de Commynes's M é moires (1537), of Froissart's chronicles, and of Claude de Seyssel's Monarchy...
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