The Online Froissart : a searchable electronic edition

在线Froissart是谢菲尔德和利物浦大学法语系的一个联合项目。它是2003年12月完成的一项合作研究计划的产物，将提供让·弗鲁瓦萨尔编年史第一至第三卷的传真版，这是百年战争中法国最重要的散文史，涵盖1325年至1390年，由编年史家于1390年至1391年撰写。最可靠和最精美的手稿见证人（贝桑松公共图书馆MSS 864-865，斯托尼赫斯特学院MS 1，图卢兹公共图书馆MS 511，布鲁塞尔，皇家图书馆MSS II 88和IV 251），它将包括完全可操作的高分辨率图像、第一至第三册的完整译文和编辑文本、支持复杂查询的搜索引擎、文本和图像内容的详细注释、词汇表、索引和超文本评论。逐字核对证人，比较不同的手稿版本的同一文本，也将提供，因为将一个全新的翻译成现代英语的大量章节的书籍I-III，读者可以将其与编辑后的抄本和原始手稿进行比较。在线Froissart将在2006年6月至12月期间根据联合AHeSSC/EPSRC电子科学示范倡议。这一版本将由HriOnline通过网络提供，并在全世界范围内免费提供。该资源将为英国和国外的研究人员、学生和其他感兴趣的人提供研究百年战争及其行为的丰富材料来源。弗鲁瓦萨尔致力于尽可能准确地描述1325年至14世纪80年代末法国、英国及其各自盟友之间的王朝战争和封建战争。因此，他广泛前往欧洲，达到阿伯丁以及阿维尼翁，切普斯托以及罗马，采访线人在任何地方，他可以。这些人包括双方的战斗人员、传令官和其他皇家官员，以及他向南或向北旅行时在路上遇到的同伴。第三册包括著名的《贝阿恩之旅》，这是一部叙事和游记的混合体，它告诉我们很多关于编年史家的采访技巧和编年史制作的专业方法。《编年史》仍然是中世纪、政治和文化史历史学家的主要资源，也是叙事和早期现代散文历史文学的学生的主要资源。它们是研究中古法语语言和句法的关键资源。然而，它们长得惊人。这本书的电子版可快速检索和阅读，使学者们能够浏览数十万字的文本，并迅速找到编年史作者提到的人物和地点的信息。在线Froissart还为中世纪手稿制作和绘画的学生提供了无与伦比的原始材料来源。它展示了一系列15世纪早期的带插图手稿，所有这些手稿都是大约在同一时间在巴黎制作的（约100页）。1408年至1418年），几乎可以肯定的是，在一个“企业家”的名字皮埃尔·德·利福尔的指导下。在贝桑松的两卷、斯托尼赫斯特图书馆的手稿、图卢兹的手稿和两本布鲁塞尔的副本中，人们可以追溯到负责制作这些书籍的同一小群抄写员和艺术家的活动。皮埃尔·德·利福尔似乎发现了一个机会，他制作了同样的文本的副本，供法语或英语消费。两位艺术大师为他们的装饰做出了贡献：Boethius和Giac Masters，以及他们的同事和学徒。我们可以在这组迷人的手稿中考察他们各自的方法和技巧。

The Online Froissart is a joint project based in the French Departments of the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. Arising from a colaborative programme of research completed in December 2003, it will deliver a facsimile edition of Books I-III of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, the most important prose history in French of the Hundred Years War, covering the years 1325-1390 and penned by the chronicler in 1390-91.Based on five of the earliest, most reliable and most beautifully decorated manuscript witnesses (Besançon Public Library MSS 864-865, Stonyhurst College MS 1, Toulouse Public Library MS 511, Brussels, Royal Library MSS II 88 and IV 251), it will incorporate fully manipulable high-resolution images, complete transcriptions and edited texts for Books I-III, a search engine to support sophisticated queries, detailed annotation of text and image content, a glossary, index, and hypertext commentaries. Word-for-word collation across witnesses, to compare different manuscript versions of the same text, will also be supplied, as will an entirely new translation into modern English of substantial sections of Books I-III, which readers will be able to compare both to the edited transcription and the original manuscript versions.The Online Froissart will incorporate new viewing software developed between June and December 2006 under the joint AHeSSC/EPSRC e-Science demonstrator initiative. The edition itself will be delivered over the web by HriOnline and be freely accessible worldwide.The resource will offer researchers, students and other interested persons, both in the UK and abroad, a rich source of material for the study of the Hundred Years' War and its conduct. Froissart was intent upon producing as accurate an account as he could manage of the dynastic and feudal wars between France and England and their respective allies, from 1325 to the late 1380s. He therefore travelled widely in Europe, reaching Aberdeen as well as Avignon, Chepstow as well as Rome, interviewing informants wherever he could. These included combatants on either side, heralds and other royal officers, and companions met with on the road as he journeyed south or north. Book III includes the celebrated 'Journey to Béarn', a mixture of narration and travelogue which tell us a great deal about the chronicler's interviewing techniques and professional approach to chronicle production.The Chronicles remain a major resource for historians of medieval, political and cultural history, but also for students of narrative and early modern historical literature in prose. They are a key resource for the study of Middle French language and syntax. They are, however, prodigiously long. The availability of a rapidly searchable and perusable electronic edition will allow scholars to scan the hundreds of thousands of words of text, and to swiftly locate information about persons and places referred to by the chronicler.The Online Froissart also offers students of medieval manuscript production and painting an unrivalled source of primary material. It features a series of early 15th-century illuminated manuscripts, all of which were produced in Paris at around the same time (ca. 1408-1418), and almost certainly under the direction of an 'entrepreneur' by the name of Pierre de Liffol. Across the two Besançon volumes, the Stonyhurst Library manuscript, the Toulouse manuscript and the two Brussels copies, one can trace the activity of the same small group of scribes and artists responsible for the production of these books. Pierre de Liffol seems to have spotted an opportunity, producing copies of the same text decorated for either French or English consumption. Two artist masters contributed to their decoration: the Boethius and Giac Masters, together with their associates and apprentices. We can examine their respective methods and techniques acrossthis fascinating group of manuscripts.