This is a link to an online edition of Froissart's Chronicles;

http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/onlinefroissart/



two for the price of one;

http://faculty.nipissingu.ca/muhlberger/FROISSART/TALES.HTM

Thanks for the links, Trike. I've dipped in a couple of times.  Of course the story I remember from Froissart is Queen Philippa and the burghers of Calais. When I read the Uden book one of the tales was about a lady who had held off an assault on her castle but I can't remember her name. (I've been trying to think of real life women with strong personalities living in [roughly] the Middle Ages).  Some TV stories (albeit fiction) make it appear as if the women were buckling  their swashes along with the men back in Medieval times, but I don't really think it was so. I believe Eleanor of Aquitaine rode alongside her son(s) - not that she was personally a warrior but she did ride the trail.  I haven't been able to find anything [and of course I know they wouldn't be in Froissart] about the "fighting women of Connaught" on the world wide wait.  I dipped into the bit about the peasants' revolt - Froissart was definitely on the side of the poshos I noted. My sentiments are more "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" I also read a bit about the castle in "Lourde".  I've been to Lourdes a couple of times and went round the castle (last time was 1999) and going from memory there was a "terrace of the Black Prince" there,  even  after all this time.

LadyinRetirement wrote:

When I read the Uden book one of the tales was about a lady who had held off an assault on her castle but I can't remember her name.

 Hi LiR, that story sounds very much like Agnes Randolph, aka Black Agnes of Dunbar;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Randolph

Thanks for the link, Trike. A fictional spirited Medieval lady of course was Nicolette (from the old French poem "Aucassin and Nicolette"), which is I believe well known, but the heroine is somewhat more spunky than the hero [which is all part of the person who wrote the poem turning things on their head for humour].

You might like this as well, LiR, Holinshed's Chronicles;

http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

Triceratops wrote:

This is a link to an online edition of Froissart's Chronicles;

http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/onlinefroissart/



two for the price of one;

http://faculty.nipissingu.ca/muhlberger/FROISSART/TALES.HTM

Triceratops,

thank you so much for these two links. Yes, I knew Froissart, while he many times is mentioned in pre- Belgian history as for instance the Burgundians...
And it is also part of the local history of the Duchy of Flanders...
For instance this that I found in your link:
http://faculty.nipissingu.ca/muhlberger/FROISSART/DAMME2.HTM

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

This is a link I found to a French website which has the text of "Aucassin et Nicolette" in both the original Medieval French and modern French http://aucassinetnicolette.d-t-x.com/index.html.  The site also has links to (French) versions of "The Voyage of St Brendan" and "Chanson de Roland".  These are made-up stories of course (well some might aver that the story about St Brendan was true??)

LIR,

thank you so much for this exeptional site. Started to look at it and one needs the whole evening to read all the links. In one word:excellent. Hope the other French speaking readers as MM will enjoy it too...
I did some research for the author and it is very difficult to find her.There is a contact Email but it doesn't work on my computer.
She seems to be from a thin village in Switzerland...
http://lachansonderoland.d-t-x.com/pages/FRintro00C.html
From this URL:

"This is an area of interpretation where there is ample room for innovation, but such new approaches require as much courage as they do technical skill. Dominique Tixhon enjoys the advantage of both, as those familiar with her brilliant and ground-breaking illustrations to the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan will readily acknowledge [saintbrendan.d-t-x.com]. Hers is a rare sensitivity allied to a remarkable intuition and an unusually high degree of poetic awareness."
"Dominique Tixhon’s visual commentary on the Song of Roland is an original and unique achievement, and it is a great pleasure for me to be associated with it. Her enterprise is sure to earn for her the admiration and gratitude of a large number of modern readers. For them she will have made this medieval masterpiece not only accessible and but a rare aesthetic pleasure too."

Don't know what happens: The texts don't show in the preview but as a nearly unreadable dark shade...
I sent them to see what happens...

Thanks again LIR and I will continue with an addendum.

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

Addendum to the previous message.

I see now that when you move your mouse over the text it appears in white on blue background and is quite readable...what a tricky site that is overhere   ...
And the story of Aucassin et Nicolette:


Thanks again LIR for this marvellous site...

Cordialement et avec estime, (OOPS still in French I wanted to say: Kind regards and with esteem)

Paul.

A related subject: The Gascon Rolls;

http://www.gasconrolls.org/en/