Saturday, August 24, 2019

Froissart, Chronicles (1978)

Jean Froissart.
Chronicles.
Translated and Edited by Geoffrey Brereton.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.

Book Information: Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Penguin Classics.

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The Online Froissart, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.

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Copies of an early and well known English translation of Froissart's Chronicles by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, first published in 1523–1525, are available at Archive.org:
  • The Chronicles of Froissart.
    Translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners.
    Edited by G.C. Macaulay.
    In One Volume.
    The Globe Edition.
    London: Macmillan and Co., 1904.
    (First published in 1895.)
  • The Chronicle of Froissart.
    Translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners.
    Introduction by William Paton Ker.
    In Six Volumes.
    London: David Nutt, 1901-1903.
    Vol 1 of 6; Vol 2 of 6; Vol 3 of 6; Vol 4 of 6; Vol 5 of 6; Vol 6 of 6.
    (This edition has Berners's original Sixteenth Century English.)
  • John Froissart.
    Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV.
    Translated by Thomas Johnes.
    In Two Volumes.
    London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
    Vol 1 of 2; Vol 2 of 2.
    (This edition has some nice color illustrations along with its relatively newer translation.)
My additional motive for mentioning these other editions of Froissart's Chronicles, aside from their intrinsic interest, is as follows. In the Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition Geoffrey Brereton observes that his edition is "a selection covering less than one-sixth of the total length of the Chronicles" (page 27).

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