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The Online Froissart Ed. Peter Ainsworth and Godfried Croenen. Version 1.3. Sheffield: HRIOnline, 2012. <http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/onlinefroissart>.
The massive French Chroniques by Jean Froissart, covering three quarters of the fourteenth century in four books, are an invaluable and well-known source for historians of the Hundred Years' War and Late Middle Ages. They are also a challenge to critical editors. Their tradition is both overwhelming and complicated: overwhelming because of the considerable number of manuscripts, and complicated because of the different versions of the text borne by the witnesses.
The Online Froissart project aims at providing scholars with a comprehensive resource for the study of the Chroniques. Its holistic approach is particularly interesting: together with the transcription of the text according to a number of witnesses-which is the core of the project- it offers facsimiles of some manuscripts (currently seven complete digital surrogates are available) and information on non-textual features like commentaries or miniatures from the manuscripts, codicological descriptions, and even essays. Students and scholars unfamiliar with medieval French are not forgotten, with the English translation of a selection of chapters and quick access to prominent and well-known episodes of the Chroniques. In the original text some place names and personal names are even hyperlinked to articles that provide explanations and context. Most importantly for a digital edition, the readers / users...