The Contemporary Chronicles of the Hundred Years War

This volume is a selection from three French-language chroniclers of the Hundred Years War: Jean le Bel, who wrote as an admirer of Edward III and a reporter of campaigns he had seen; Jean Froissart, who expanded chivalric narrative of courts, raids, and battles such as Crecy and Poitiers; and Enguerrand de Monstrelet, who continued the story through the later civil wars and Agincourt. The excerpts follow kings, captains, and knights rather than peasants. The editor arranges them as a continuous contemporary view of the conflict. The book is a compiled chronicle, not a modern analytical history.

Quarter-bound in dark blue leather with wood veneer boards. Blue-grey slipcase.