Les Grandes Chroniques de France

Lecture by Antoine Brix, winner of the 2019 doctoral thesis prize from the Foundation for Historical and Scientific Works, with Olivier Mattéoni, Professor of Medieval History at the Sorbonne School of History (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University): https://www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-ch... See the entry for the book "Becoming the History of France: The Fortune of the Grandes Chroniques de France in the Middle Ages," published by CTHS: https://cths.fr/ed/edition.php?id=872... Born from a complex and centuries-long process of composition, the Grandes Chroniques de France became one of the greatest successes of French literature at the end of the Middle Ages. Since the 18th century, the studies devoted to it, as well as the editions that established its text, have further reinforced the heritage and monumental dimension of this work on the history of the kings of France, contributing to its sacralization. In such an undertaking, archivists played a leading role until the mid-20th century. Has research on the "Grandes Chroniques" since then escaped the influence of a conception inherited from former students of the École des Chartes? Miniature: Clovis II has the silver covering removed from the roof of the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis and incurs the hostility of the monks. "Grandes Chroniques de France," KBR (Brussels), Manuscripts Department, ms. 5, f. 91r. Photograph KBR (Brussels)