Chronicles / Froissart ; selected, translated and edited by Geoffrey Brereton.
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Harmondsworth :
Penguin Books,
1978.
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Table of Contents:
- The chronological background
- Book one (1322-77). Prologue ; The beginning of a reign ; Deposition of Edward II and accession of Edward III ; The Scots invade England ; Edward III does homage to Philip VI ; Preliminaries of the Hundred Years War ; Battle of Sluys ; The Order of the Garter ; The campaign of Crécy ; The siege of Calais ; Black death, flagellants and Jews ; Sea battle off Winchelsea ; The siege of Breteuil and the Poitiers campaign ; Consequences of Poitiers ; The Three Estates, the Free Companies ; The Jacquerie ; The last days of Étienne Marcel ; Brigandry, warfare and predictions ; King John's return to England and his death ; The Battle of Montiel and death of Peter the Cruel ; The sack of Limoges ; The turn of the tide ; Du Gueselin appointed constable ; La Rochelle goes over to the French ; John of Gaunt's fruitless expedition ; The end of a reign
- Book two (1376-85). Papal affairs and the Great Schism ; The Great Schism ; The Peasant's Revolt in England ; Affairs of Flanders ; Battle of Roosebeke ; Charles VI marries Isabella of Bavaria.
- Book three (1386-8). At the court of the Count of Foix ; The haunting of Sir Peter ; Reminiscences of the Bascot de Mauléon, freebooter ; The tale of the familiar ; Preparations for a French invasion of England ; Trial by combat ; Richard II's first struggle with his uncles ; John of Gaunt's expedition to Spain ; The Battle of Otterburn (Chevy Chase)
- Book four (1389-1400). Queen Isabella's entry into Paris ; A royal visitation ; Tournament at Saint-Inglevert ; The Duke of Touraine in trouble ; The death of the Count of Foix ; Charles VI goes mad ; Froissart revisits England ; The English in Ireland ; Two marriages ; The downfall of Richard II ; The murder of Gloucester ; The challenge and Bolinbroke's banishment ; Richard loses control ; The return of Bolingbroke ; The surrender of King Richard ; Richard's abdication ; Coronation of Bolingbroke ; Plots against Henry IV ; The end of Richard of Bordeaux
- Notes in form and glossary
- Map: France and neighbouring territories in the fourteenth century.