Dr Godfried Croenen MA PhD FRHistS FSA
Honorary Research Fellow Languages, Cultures and Film
- Work email G.Croenen@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
Research Interest 1
My current research is concerned with the development of specific late-medieval forms of history writing and their relation to more literary genres, on the one hand, and the growing market for these writings and the manuscripts through which they were transmitted, on the other. I am approaching this issue through a study of the author Jean Froissart, who wrote a well-known chronicle on the period of the Hundred Years' War, as well as an Arthurian romance (the Meliador), and a large collection of courtly poetry (see the Bibliography Jean Froissart). I have recently completed the Online Froissart, an electronic edition of select manuscripts of Froissart's Chronicles, which was a joint project with the University of Sheffield. I am currently preparing critical editions of Froissart's Chronique de Flandre and of the 'C' versions of Books I and II of his Chronicles.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
Guillebert de Mets : scribe, author and publisher between Flanders and Paris
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
July 2018 - June 2019
(Re)Writing the Hundred Years' War: The Genesis of Jean Froissart's Chronicles
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
August 2011 - February 2012
Patronage of 14th century French vernacular historiography: the biography and patrons of Jean Froissart.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
April 2004 - July 2005
Workshops, exemplar and the production of illustrated copies of Froissart's Chronicles in early 15th-century Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (UK)
June 2012 - April 2014
The Manuscripts of Jean Froissart's Chronicles
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2007 - May 2007
The Early Manuscripts of Jean Froissart's Chroniques: Production, Patronage and Dissemination.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
July 2001 - March 2002
The Online Froissart : a searchable electronic edition
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2007 - March 2010
The textual transmission of Jean Froissart's Chronicles
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
July 2006 - September 2007
Research Collaborations
Prof. Dr Mike Kestemont
External: University of Antwerp
Computer-aided recognition of scribal hands in medieval manuscripts.
Gilles Souvay
External: ATILF (CNRS)
Computer-aided lemmatisation of Middle French texts
Professor Peter Ainsworth
External: The University of Sheffield
The Online Froissart Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. The Project Director is Professor Peter Ainsworth (Sheffield); the Associate Director is Dr Godfried Croenen (Liverpool). The project will establish a freely accessible and interactive scholarly edition of Books I-III of Froissart’s Chronicles. The interface will integrate high-resolution digital facsimiles with machine-readable text, allowing users to explore texts and manuscripts through a combination of context-specific searching, lemmatised indexing and concordancing, full text and image collation and display of variant readings. Scholarly commentaries will be provided on historical and textual aspects of the Chronicles, as well as on the art-historical and codicological aspects of the manuscripts. Translations into modern English of key episodes will be supplied.