Dissertation--Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 321-341.

Proefschrift--Leiden. / Stellingen: 2 l. at end.

Le projet historique de Jean Froissart s’inscrit dans un discours particulier sur les genres historiques, sur les rapports entre la forme et la vérité que le récit des faits est censé véhiculer, sur la manière de construire l’autorité de l’histoire racontée. C’est au croisement entre ce contexte et l’individualité de l’auteur que nous avons voulu sonder les perspectives du chroniqueur sur l’écriture historique. Préoccupé dès le début par les questions de l’impartialité et de la crédibilité de son propos, Froissart met en place un système référentiel de plus en plus complexe qui a pour but d’authentifier son récit des grands événements qui secouaient les royaumes occidentaux depuis presqu’un siècle. La réalité historique que Jean Froissart recrée dans ses Chroniques est dépendante des facteurs personnels qui conditionnaient son appréhension du monde, des manières dont il s’identifiait dans la société de son temps. Elle est recréée avec un grand talent de raconter, mais aussi – ce que l’on a trop souvent méconnu – avec un souci de plus en plus accru de découvrir et d’exposer les réseaux de causes qui sont à l’œuvre dans le cours des événements. Cependant, les moyens littéraires auxquels Froissart faisait appel et qui sont associés notamment à l’art du conteur qu’il était, participent eux à l’authenticité de l’histoire qu´il raconte. Car si le chroniqueur se veut celui qui éternise les faits dignes de mémoire, il se refuse en même temps à écrire une autre histoire que véridique. Et cette préoccupation première de son écriture ne doit pas être obscurcie par le fait que son approche ne corresponde pas à nos critères contemporains de l’écriture de l’histoire. / Jean Froissart´s historical project falls within a specific discourse on historical genres, on relationships between form and truth which an account of deeds is expected to convey, on the manner in which the authority of a story being told is constructed. It is on the very intersection of this context and the individuality of the author that I based my search for the chronicler’s perspectives on the writing of history. Froissart was from the outset concerned with the issues of impartiality and credibility of his account and created a system of references, which grew more and more complex, designed to authenticate his version of important events which had been shaking the West for almost a century. The historical reality which Jean Froissart recreates in his Chronicles is dependent on personal factors which determined his understanding of the world as well as his self-identification within the society of his time. It is undeniably recreated with great storytelling talent, but also – and this has often been overlooked – with growing desire to discover and expose the relations of causes which were at work in the course of the events. Nonetheless, Froissart’s literary means, which are often associated with his artistry as a storyteller, do contribute, for their part, to the authenticity of the story. For if the chronicler presents himself as the one who eternalizes deeds worthy of remembrance, he refuses at the same time to write any other history than the true and truthful one. This primary concern of his should not be obscured by the fact that his approach and methods do not correspond to our contemporary criteria of historical writing.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1995. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-554) and index.

Submitted by Roberth Novaes (roberth.novaes@live.com) on 2018-07-18T14:38:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Versão final - Dissertação Ingrid Oliveira.pdf: 2484641 bytes, checksum: 209ae4dfb7253bdc1102ab63b919f5d4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-07-20T19:10:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Versão final - Dissertação Ingrid Oliveira.pdf: 2484641 bytes, checksum: 209ae4dfb7253bdc1102ab63b919f5d4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-20T19:10:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Versão final - Dissertação Ingrid Oliveira.pdf: 2484641 bytes, checksum: 209ae4dfb7253bdc1102ab63b919f5d4 (MD5) / FAPESB / O trabalho aqui apresentado teve como objetivo analisar as lexias relativas ao ato de guerra presentes nas Chroniques de Jean Froissart, um dos grandes cronistas medievais de língua francesa. Suas crônicas, divididas em quatro livros, cobrem quase todo o século XIV e tem como tema central a Guerra dos Cem Anos, conflito entre a França e a Inglaterra de 1337 a 1453. Para este trabalho utilizou-se como corpus os volumes 1 e 2 da edição realizada por Siméon Luce do primeiro livro de crônicas. Fez-se um recorte para três campos: os atores da guerra, os utensílios utilizados e os meios de transporte. Esta pesquisa vinculou-se diretamente a duas áreas de estudo: a Lexicografia, área que estuda a sistematização do léxico em dicionários, vocabulários e glossários, e a Filologia que, a partir do texto, visa ao resgate e a preservação da cultura de um povo. Ao total foram estudadas 90 lexias. O grupo dos utensílios é o maior entre os três campos, com 43 lexias. Em seguida, o grupo dos atores da guerra, com 28. Por fim, tem-se o grupo dos meios de transporte, com 19 lexias. / The present work aimed at the analysis of the lexical units related to the act of war found in the Chroniques, by Jean Froissart, one the greatest medieval chroniclers in French language. His chronicles, divided in four books, cover almost all 14th century and have the Hundred Years' War - conflict between French and England which lasted from 1337 to 1453 - as their central theme. The corpus of this research was composed by the first and second volumes of Siméon Luce's edition of the first book of chronicles. Three categories were established: the war actors, the utensils used and the means of transportation. This research is directly linked to two areas of knowledge: Lexicography, an area which studies the systematization of the lexicon in dictionaries, vocabularies and glossaries, and the Philology which, departing from the text, aims at the preservation of cultures. A total of 90 lexical units were studied. The utensils used compose the largest category, with 43 units. Next, we have the actors of the war, with 28. Finally, we have the means of transportation, with 19.

The Construction of Historical Reality in Jean Froissart's Chronicles Jean Froissart, one of the most famous chroniclers of the Middle Ages, is generally recognized for the literary qualities of his work, less so for the credibility of his account. In my research I have endeavoured to follow those scholars whose aim has been to rehabilitate the author by studying him not on the basis of principles which govern our contemporary understanding of history as an academic discipline, but rather on the basis of conceptual movements which conditioned historical writing in the 14th century, taking into account the traditions upon which medieval conception of history was built. Put differently, this work seeks to examine closely the "historical forge" of Jean Froissart. Clearly, Froissart's historical project falls within a specific discourse on historical genres, on relationships between form and truth which an account of deeds is expected to convey, on the manner in which the authority of a story being told is constructed. It is on the very intersection of this context, on the one hand, and the individuality of the author, on the other, that I based my search for the chronicler's perspectives on the writing of history. Froissart was from the outset concerned with the issues of impartiality and credibility...

Jean Froissart’s Chroniques, composed of four Books, relate the first stages of the Anglo-French conflict later known as the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453). This thesis explores Froissart’s textual journey(s) to Gascon lands (south-west of modern-day France) and history/stories. Relying on Gérard Genette’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s narrative theories, it uses literary and narratological tools to analyse three passages from Book I and III concerned with Gascony: the Earl of Derby’s Gascon campaigns (Chapter 1); the Black Prince’s Gascon campaigns and the principality of Aquitaine (Chapter 2); Froissart’s personal journey to and stay at the court of Gaston Fébus, count of Foix-Béarn (Chapter 3). One aim of the study is to investigate the representation of the region but it also argues that the Gascon passages have wider implications for the Chroniques, Froissart’s work as a whole, and the writing of history in the fourteenth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, Froissart’s ‘history’ was often disparagingly discussed by scholars due to factual inaccuracy and literary embellishments: such a ‘historical narrative’, it was felt, fell short of history and was nothing more than an entertaining story presenting outdated chivalric ideals. Although this approach has been partly revised, some critics still view the Chroniques’ earlier Books as being a narratively straightforward reflection of such a chivalric ideology, lacking critical hindsight on fourteenth-century events and society, and thus presenting paradoxical and irreconcilable tensions with later Books to the extent that they are occasionally deemed to be an entirely different kind of work than their later counterparts. The narrative thread of Froissart’s Gascon (hi)story explored here allows the revision of such views and shows that Froissart’s narrative is far from narratively and ideologically straightforward. This complexity is present as early as the first versions of the Book I, which should be envisaged in parallel, not in opposition, with the ‘later’ Chroniques. Similarly, the various tensions (e.g. fiction/history; ideal/real) underpinning the whole work, manifested in the portrayal of Gascony/the Gascons, are best approached in terms of co-existence, not antagonism. Such a multi-faceted work (a mirror and/or product of the fourteenth century?), à mi-chemin between history and fiction, between conflicting yet co-existing perspectives, is precisely what makes Froissart’s Chroniques valuable to literary critics, philologists, and historians alike.