Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Rusticiano’s was divided and published as two distinct romances, Guiron le Courtois and Meliadus. Norris J.Lacy [See also: PROPH ...

in Chrétien’s wake, is one of the first to accept the challenge laid down by Chrétien. For Raoul, the decision to write an Arthu ...

Arthur’s court. After defending his mother against the Emperor of Constantinople, Floriant marries Florete; like Erec, Floriant ...

Alton, Johann, ed. Li romans de Claris et Laris. Tübingen: Bibliothek des litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 1884. Bennett, Ph ...

[See also: ARMOR AND WEAPONS; RECONQUEST OF FRANCE; WARFARE] Contamine, Philippe. Guerre, état et société a la fin du moyen âge: ...

Lestocquoy, Jean. Histoire de la Flandre et de l’Artois. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1949. Wood, Charles T. The Fre ...

equation of rhythm and rhétorique vulgaire. According to such a view, Deschamps exalts poetry by appealing to its traditional re ...

ASSEMBLIES . Historians of political institutions have long been attracted to medieval assemblies, studying them for evidence of ...

turned again to large assemblies after 1300, they served their traditional purpose of celebrating royal power and majesty, prese ...

Southern France was the source of several other astronomical instruments as well. Robertus Anglicus, writing at Montpellier ca. ...

ATHIS ET PROPHILIAS . A verse romance from the end of the 12th century by Alexandre (de Bernay?), extant in two versions of vary ...

possible allusion in Section 24 to the écu, a coin minted only after 1266, would produce a later date and one that is not unsuit ...

to make his ideals coincide with reality. But in spite of his scandalous rejection in the name of love of the principles of feud ...

AUGUSTINE, RULE OF ST . From about the 12th century onward, some religious communities in the West took as their guide the Rule ...

AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS/HERMITS . In 1256, Pope Alexander IV ordered several groups of hermits in northern Italy to unite under the a ...

Aulnay-en-Saintonge (Charente- Maritime), Saint-Pierre, south portal. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. stones. The inn ...

AUMÔNIER/AUMÔNERIE . The Latin title elemosinarius, from which the Old French almosn(i)er or aumosnier and its English equivalen ...

AURELIAN OF RÉÔME (fl. late 9th c.). The Musica disciplina, a collection of theoretical texts drawn from a wide variety of dispa ...

Franks, and the Lex Ribuaria was for Austrasia. The Carolingians and their early supporters were Austrasians. Austrasia first ap ...

Autun (Saône-et-Loire), Saint-Lazare, west-portal tympanum, Last Judgment. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. Autun, Sai ...