La Cronicque Margariticque ou Athensienne de Julien Fossetier : édition du prologue et de la première section sur le « Haynault »

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Supervisors

Cavagna, Mattia

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

enWidely unknown to modern critics, Julien Fossetier was a sixteenth-century chronicler and poet from Ath who successively wrote for Margaret of Austria and Charles V. In this master thesis, we will focus on his Cronicque Margariticque, written for the archduchess and regent of the Netherlands between 1508 and 1517. It is a universal chronicle with historical claims, tracing the history of Western civilisation from the creation of the world to the Second Punic War. Our work will present Fossetier's work as an example of historiography at the end of the Middle Ages, through the editing of a fragment from the history of the "Haynault". I will also discuss this passage with regard to the sources used by Fossetier during its composition. For this purpose, I will highlight the way in which the Cronicque Margariticque uses, in the early years of the 16th century, the Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae of Jacques de Guise and the Chroniques de Hainaut of Jean Wauquelin.