Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

LaFortune-Martel, Agathe. Fête noble en Bourgogne au XVe siècle. Montreal: Bellarmin, 1984. La Marche, Olivier de. Mémoires d’Ol ...

Poull, Georges. La maison ducale de Bar: les premiers comtes de Bar (1033–1239). Rupt-sur- Moselle: Poull, 1977. BARLAAM ET JOSA ...

BARON/BARONY . The Latin baro (pl. barones), probably derived from a Germanic word whose basic sense was “man as distinct from w ...

BASIRON, PHILIPPE (Phelippon, Philippon de Bourges; ca. 1450–1491). Composer, musician, and cleric. Basiron first appears as a c ...

[See also: BAUDE, HENRI; CONFRÉRIE DE LA PASSION; COQUILLART, GUILLAUME; FARCE; SOTTIE; THEATER] Fabre, Adolphe. Les clercs du p ...

already under cultivation by religious houses rather than in forest or waste and are thus not part of the earlier défrichement ( ...

[See also: CONGÉ; JEHAN BODEL; PUY] Ruelle, Pierre, ed. Les congés d’Arras (Jean Bodel, Baude Fastoul, Adam de la Halle). Paris: ...

marred by war with his mother, Clemence. Baudouin’s chief adviser was his cousin Charles of Denmark, who succeeded him. Baudouin ...

BAUDOUIN DE SEBOURC . A mid-14th-century northern French chanson de geste loosely attached to the Crusade Cycle. Its 25,778 line ...

Baudri’s best-known prose work is the Latin Historia Hierosolymitana, an account of the First Crusade written shortly after 1107 ...

Bayeux (Calvados), Notre-Dame, plan. After Valery-Radot. notes that Odo, bishop of Bayeux, consecrated the church in 1076 and fi ...

later alterations irretrievably transformed the exterior of the church into a Gothic building with 13th-century tracery, gables, ...

legend of SS. Vigor and Loup on the south side of the choir. The 11th-century crypt holds carved capitals. Of conventual buildin ...

BAYONNE . The only fortress of any consequence in southwestern France, Lapurdum, now Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), was the pri ...

BÉARN . The viscounty of Béarn in Gascony, created in the 9th century, consisted of two principal valleys, the Aspe and the Ossa ...

BEAULIEU-SUR-DORDOGNE (Corrèze). The 12th-century church with magnificent sculptured portal, chapter house, several reliquaries, ...

was the second son of Philippe de Remi (ca. 1205-ca. 1265), who served as bailli of Gâtinais for Robert, count of Artois, from 1 ...

LAW AND JUSTICE; PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONAL MATERIALS; REALISTIC ROMANCES; RESVERIE; WAUQUELIN (DE MONS), JEAN] Philippe de Remi, si ...

Beaune (Côte d’Or), Hôtel-Dieu, courtyard. Photograph courtesy of Joan A.Holladay. Beaune (Côte d’Or), Hôtel-Dieu. Photograph co ...

Rhein, André. “Beaune: collégiale Notre-Dame,” “Beaune: église Saint-Nicolas,” and “Beaune: Hôtel-Dieu.” Congrès archéologique ( ...