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FROISSART FABRIC HIST C

By Ainsworth

FROISSART FABRIC HIST C

By Ainsworth

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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 historynor 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, fromself-effacement in the service of impartiality to unshamed self-celebration.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
346
Release Date:
1991-01-01
Publication Date:
2007-12-07
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198158645
ISBN13:
9780198158646
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
652 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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