Abstrakt
Jean Froissart, one of the most famous chroniclers of the Middle Ages, is generally recognized for the literary qualities of his work, less so for the credibility of his account. In my research, I have endeavoured to follow those scholars whose aim has been to rehabilitate the author, studying him not on the basis of principles which govern our contempo-rary understanding of history as an academic discipline, but rather on the basis of conceptual movements which conditioned historical writing in the 14th century, taking into account the traditions upon which the medie-val conception of history was built.
Froissart was from the outset concerned with the issues of impartiality and credibility in his account, and created a system of references which grew more and more complex, designed to authenticate his version of important events which had been shaking the West for almost a century.