The True Chroni s of Jean le Bel, 1290 - 1360

The chronicles of Jean le Bel are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War.This is the first English translation of a work written from eyewitness accounts and personal experience. The chronicles of Jean le Bel, written around 1352-61, are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War.They were only rediscovered and published at the beginning of the twentieth century, thoughFroissart begins his much more famous work by acknowledging his great debt to the "true chronicles" which Jean le Bel had written.Many of the great pages of Froissart are actually the work of Jean le Bel, and this is the first translation of his book.It introduces English-speaking readers to a vivid text written by a man who, although a canon of the cathedral at Liège, had actually fought with Edward III in Scotland, and who was a great admirer of the English king.He writes directly and clearly, with an admirable grasp of narrative; and he writes v