Jean de Venette

Jean de Venette
Born
Jean de Venette

c. 1307
Venette, Fr.
Diedaft. 1370
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)French Chronicler
Carmelite friar

Jean de Venette, or Jean Fillons[1] (c. 1307 – c. 1370) was a French Carmelite friar, from Venette, Oise, who became the Prior of the Carmelite monastery in the Place Maubert, Paris, and was a Provincial Superior of France from 1341 to 1366.[2] He is the author of L'Histoire des Trois Maries, a long French poem on the legend of the Three Marys, giving his name at the start of the text,[3] and has since 1735 been also regarded as the author of an anonymous Latin chronicle of the period of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. In recent decades it has been questioned whether these were in fact the same author, although it seems that both were Carmelites. Other historians see no reason to create an extra author,[4] but recent French publications tend to refer to the "Chronique dite de Jean de Venette" ("Chronicle said to be by Jean de Venette").[5] By his own account the chronicler was of peasant origin, and his view of the events of his lifetime has a significantly different perspective from that of other chroniclers.[6]

  1. ^ Jean Birdsall edited by Richard A. Newhall. The Chronicles of Jean de Venette (N.Y. Columbia University Press. 1953) Introduction par 2
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Venette, Jean de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 987.
  3. ^ "L'Histoire Des Trois Maries" by Jean de Venette, O. Carm, ed. Michael T. Driscoll, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation, 1975
  4. ^ Cohn, Samuel Kline. Popular Protest in Late-Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders, Manchester University Press, 2004. p. 170
  5. ^ "Jean de Venette | Arlima - Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge". www.arlima.net. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  6. ^ Jean Birdsall edited by Richard A. Newhall. The Chronicles of Jean de Venette (N.Y. Columbia University Press. 1953) Introduction