Literary Leakings into Wavrin’s Danube: Three Strongholds and a Broken Bombard Vladimir Agrigoroaei
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Vladimir Agrigoroaei. Literary Leakings into Wavrin’s Danube: Three Strongholds and a Broken Bombard. Between Worlds: John Hunyadi and His Time, Aug 2006, Alba-Iulia, Romania. pp.51-67. halshs-01235957
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HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. LITTERARY LEAKINGS INTO W AVR IN ’S DA NU BE : THREE STRONGHOLDS AND A BROKEN BO MBAR D Vladimir Agrigoroaei “Dimitrie Cantemir” University Bucharest In the second half of the XV th century, Jean de Wavrin (c. 1400 1471), a noble knight from Artois and a witness of the Agincourt battle, wrote a Recueil des Croniques et Anchiennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne, a present nommé Engleterre 1. His interest focused mainly on the English, Burgundian, and French affairs during and immediately after the Hundred Years’ War 2, but among his stories there is one about an exotic Danube campaign of his own nephew, a Burgundian knight named Waleran, also de Wavrin (c. 1418 1480). Jean de Wavrin, the uncle, was not a famous chronicler. In fact, his prose did not match the contemporary qualities and the 15 th century stylistics. Moreover, out of Jean Froissart’s epigones, he is the least famous of all. Even Enguerrand of Monstrelet, Georges Chastellain or Olivier de la Marche surpass him in fame, literary abilities, and in popularity. Jean de Wavrin was a famous Burgundian ambassador in Rome