ID: 901000933 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000933	Record Type: Literature

	Froissart's Chronicles (history, Froissart, after 1370)

Note: Froissart's Chronicles is preserved in more than 150 manuscripts, many of which are illustrated. Prose chronicle of the Hundred Years' War, from events leading up to the deposition of Edward II in 1326 through ca. 1400, including events in England, France, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Balkans, Cyprus, Turkey, and North Africa. Although today recognized as inaccurate in its historical accounts, the book is an important description of the chivalric culture of the 14th-century.

Display Date: begun after 1370

Names:

	Froissart's Chronicles (history, Froissart, after 1370) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Chroniques (history, Froissart, after 1370) (French,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: History, Biographies> (P)
		............Froissart's Chronicles (history, Froissart, after 1370) (I)

Related Iconography:

	topic is .... Hundred Years’ War
	..........(Named Events, European history, French history, Hundred Years’ War (French-English war, 14th-15th century)) [901001655]

Other Relationships:

	author is .... Froissart, Jean (French historian and chronicler, ca. 1337-ca. 1410)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... chronicle
	.....(histories (literary genre), genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	topic is .... history (literary genre)
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Froissart's Chronicles (history, Froissart, after 1370)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	Chroniques (history, Froissart, after 1370)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)