ISBN: 1103927299

[EAN: 9781103927296], Neubuch, WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON,ENGLAND,FRANCE, This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.… Meer...

[EAN: 9781103927296], Neubuch, WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON,ENGLAND,FRANCE, This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. FEOISSART. 1337-1410. French literature, for the purposes of the present volume, may be said to commence with Froissart. Froissart is a kind of medifeval Herodotus. His time is, indeed, almost this side the Middle Ages; but by character and by sympathy he belongs rather to the mediaeval than to the modern world. He is delightfully like Herodotus in the style and the spirit of his narrative. Like Herodotus, he became a traveler in order to become an historian. Like Herodotus, he was cosmopolite enough not to be narrowly patriotic. Frenchman though he was, he took as much pleasure in recounting English victories as he did in recounting French. His countrymen have even accused him of unpatriotic partiality for the English. His Chronicles have been, perhaps, more popular in their English form than in their original French. Two prominent English translations have been made, of which the later, that by Thomas Johnes, is now most read. Sir Walter Scott thought the earlier excelled in charm of style. Jehan or Jean Froissart was a native of Valenciennes. His father meant to make a priest of him, but the boy had tastes of his own. Before he was well out of his teens he began writing history. This was under the patronage of a great noble. Froissart was all his life a natural courtier. He throve on the patronage of the great. It was probably not a fawning spirit in him that made him this kind of man; it was rather an innate love of splendor and high exploit. He admired chivalry, then in its last days, and he painted it with the passion of an ideal izer. His father had been an heraldic painter, so it was perhaps an hereditary strain in theson that naturally attached him to rank and royalty. The peoplethat is, the promiscous mass of mankindhardly exist to Froissart. His pages, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2016, ISBN: 1103927299

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2009, ISBN: 1103927299

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