Tyson Diana B. La Vie du Prince Noir by Chandos Herald

Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1975. — 224 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie).This Old French biographical poem, written by the Herald of Sir John Chandos towards the end of the fourteenth century, forms an essential part of our records of medieval history. Chandos Herald is one of the most valuable authorities on certain episodes in the Hundred Years War, and his poem is in all probability the source of almost all our information respecting the Spanish campaign of the Black Prince in 1366—1367. Its place in medieval French literature is equally significant: it is one of the few examples we have of French biographical writing on contemporary figures in the fourteenth century, and it is especially valuable as a piece of history recorded in verse at a time when almost all major historical French writing was done in prose.