Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Beauvais (Oise), Saint-Pierre, chevet. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. project, the chapter a ...

ambulatory chapels and the rectangular chapels are a blind triforium and a clerestory of the 13th century. This clerestory is su ...

BEDFORD MASTER . An anonymous artist named after a book of hours (B.L. add. 18850) that he illuminated for John of Lancaster, du ...

to endow them. In 1216, however, through Jacques de Vitry’s appeal to Pope Honorius III, béguines in Liège, in the kingdom of Fr ...

Delmaire, Bernard. “Les béguines dans le nord de la France au premier siècle de leur histoire (vers 1230-vers 1350).” In Les rel ...

“passing bell” and the “death knell”; and their primitive efficacy against evil spirits was called upon as they were rung to war ...

of Monte Cassino. It was written for his own monastery and probably for a handful of neighboring houses. St. Benedict relied in ...

Frankish monks more clothing than the Rule, written in Italy, had countenanced. Benedict assembled a group of a dozen monasterie ...

BENEFICE (NONECCLESIASTICAL) . A beneficium (benefice in modern French and English) was originally, under the Carolingians, a gr ...

[See also: ANTIQUITY, ROMANCES OF; ESTRABOT; HISTORIOGRAPHY; WACE] Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Chronique des ducs de Normandie, ed. ...

BERENGUER DE PALAZOL (Palau, Palol). Described by the author of his vida as a poor knight from Catalonia, the troubadour Berengu ...

that he designed the west rose window. Although Bernard’s work in the upper levels of the nave consciously continued the forms o ...

modern editors. He was a diligent compiler and accurate researcher, keen to tease the truth from contradictory sources. Travelin ...

[See also: CHARTRES; ERIUGENA, JOHANNES SCOTTUS; GILBERT OF POITIERS; JOHN OF SALISBURY; PHILOSOPHY; PLATO, INFLUENCE OF; THIERR ...

their ritual form of life and by a wider literate public, both clergy and lay, for literary enjoyment and religious insight. Man ...

Pranger, M.Burcht. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought: Broken Dreams. Leiden: Brill, 1994. BERNARD SILVESTRI ...

——. “Un manuale de geomanzia presentato da Bernardo Silvestre de Tours (XII secolo): l’Experimentarius” ed. M. Brini Savorelli. ...

The troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn as depicted in a manuscript of his poetry. BN fr. 854, fol. 26v. Courtesy of the Bibliothèqu ...

A Benedictine abbey was founded at Bernay in the beginning of the 11th century by Judith de Bretagne, wife of Richard II, duke o ...

The poem belongs to what is generally called the primitive or common version (as opposed to the courtly version) of the Tristan ...