Is the answer in Peter the Cruel by Edward Storer?
Well, not really. The very nice local librarians at Ames Free Library borrowed this text for me to link with the section on Peter the Cruel mentioned in Froissart. I was tickled to get it, until I read it. . .OK, OK. . . that wasn’t nice, I know and I am really sorry. Sorry because I was hoping for something entirely different after reading some more of Mr. Storer’s work which I really liked. Then I realized that he was probably very young when he wrote this, since all the rest of his works were done much later. So I tried for understanding, but it is a little hard in this case. Partly, because I am not a fan of editorialized history (unless I do it, of course) and partly because I always wonder about the accuracy of popular histories, which this is. Nevertheless, it is the only book I can find that covers Peter ‘the Cruel’ in any depth and is the only book on the subject for a couple of centuries. It does have some charming sections, and Storer states that he was determined to be as f
