FROISSART, JEAN. - Chronicler and poet, b. at Valenciennes in 1337 (?), d. in Hainaut after 1404.
He is famous for his Chroniques, a colorful fresco of the wars in Europe from 1327 (which, among other things, provide many details about the popes), chronicles that are historiographically shallow, not always reliable, often partial either toward the English or toward the French, but always sustained by a wonderful storytelling taste born of a conscious love for the world of chivalry. Religious and devout, though worldly, F. bows before miracles, which, according to Sainte-Beuve, remain in him like remnants of the fabliaux dévots a la Joinville. - See plate CXX.
Plate CXXFROISSART WRITES THE CHRONICLE and Froissart in the presence of the king of France. Illuminated page of the Breslau codex I, 1, signed by David Aubert (1460).Bibliography2 worksC. A. Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, IX, Paris 1854, pp. 61-96; F. Chabod, s. v. in Enc. Ital., XVI, (1932) pp. 104-105 and the bibliogra
BIBL.: C. A. Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, IX, Paris 1854, pp. 61-96; F. Chabod, s. v. in Enc. Ital., XVI, (1932) pp. 104-105 and the bibliography cited there, to which add: F. S. Scheers, F., choulées and post, London 1930.
Petrocchi, Massimo. “Froissart, jean.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1783–1784. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/froissart-jean.
MLA
Petrocchi, Massimo. “Froissart, jean.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1783–1784. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/froissart-jean.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_froissart_jean,
author = {Petrocchi, Massimo},
title = {Froissart, jean},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1783--1784},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/froissart-jean}
}
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