Jean Froissart begins the Chronicles
1379
The Hainaut priest, having ridden with Edward III's court in youth, began writing his great prose chronicle of the Hundred Years' War. Froissart would spend forty years revising, interviewing knights, and celebrating feats of arms with vivid narrative color. He left behind the most vivid and unreliable source for chivalric fourteenth-century warfare.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.