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Karel Čapek was born in Malé Svatonovice, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. The Online Froissart. Jean Froissart’s Chroniques cover the period from around 1326 to around 1400 and are the single most important contemporary prose narrative about the first part of the Hundred Years’ War.
More than 150 manuscript volumes containing the Chronicles have survived in more than 30 different libraries across Europe and North America. Of the four Books of the Chronicles the first three exist in substantially different versions. The manuscript tradition of Froissart’s Chronicles is a particularly rich quarry for research into many aspects of the period (history, art history, book production, language and literature), but research has to date been hampered by difficulties in comparing original materials dispersed to libraries across several countries.
The Online Froissart offers access to the core manuscript tradition of the first three Books of Froissart’s Chronicles, and to some manuscripts of Book IV.