Froissart, Jean (ca. 1337–1405)

AbstractJean Froissart was one of the most important chroniclers of events in western Europe during the fourteenth century, and hisChroniques(Chronicles) is one of the more valuable narrative sources for the first half of the Hundred Years' War. Although Froissart wrote in French, he documents an aristocratic culture that was centered on chivalric values and that extended across political boundaries. For Froissart and much of his audience, class divisions held greater importance than what might anachronistically be called nationality.