The Royal Armoury at Leeds has an exhibit about the Hundred Years’ War prominently featuring The Chronicles of Agincourt surviror, John Froissart.
Not only is there a rare and beautifully illuminated original manuscript of Froissart’s Chronicles on exhibit, but they have cutting-edge high-resolution photographs of six of the surviving manuscripts. This is a big deal because it allows people everywhere to view the details of works that are extremely fragile and therefore kept in careful seclusion accessible to few experts.
There are a lot of other great features too, like a calligraphy expert doing demonstrations of medieval manuscripting, weapons that match ones Froissart describes, even a Capture the Castle videogame created from one of Froissart’s stories.
Entry is free, you lucky English bastards, so head to Leeds toot sweet.
I love that OSU link!
Man, the internet is cool. Just yesterday I wouldn’t have known a reader of Froissart, and now I are one!
Isn’t that fantastic? I love the OSU collection because they take the trouble to format the books all pretty-like. Everywhere else eschews pagination and makes the footnotes a total pain in the ass to follow.
The world is a better place today (although technically, you did know a reader of Froissart yesterday: moi même!).
Alas for the lack of a savoir/connaitre in English! I knew you, a Froissart reader, but I didn’t know that you were a Froissart reader.
You wanna go “technically”? Because I’m there.
Oh, I think you passed there years ago.
Froissart died about ten years before Agincourt.