Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

cycle in a chapel off the south aisle depicts Christ in Majesty surrounded by angels and personifications of the Virtues and Vic ...

royal saints of Welsh or Irish descent; the Merovingian church tried without success to assert its authority over them. Caroling ...

influence within Brittany, especially in the records of the monastery of Redon in southeastern Brittany and in the manuscripts a ...

The 12th- and 13th-century growth in ducal resources coincided with Brittany’s belated economic expansion as land was cleared fo ...

1492 judicial body) furthered ducal sovereignty. The Breton church was similarly inde pendent: Breton clergy did not attend Fren ...

Brunterch, Jean-Pierre. “Puissance temporelle et pouvoir diocésain des évêques de Nantes entre 936 et 1049.” Mémoires de la Soci ...

Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), Church of Brou, plan. After Nodet. The understatement of the architecture showcases the liturgical furnit ...

Bruges led the Flemings in rebellion against the incursions of Philip IV of France into Flanders in 1302 and became involved in ...

Häpke, R. Brügges Entwicklung zum mittelalterlichen Weltmarkt. Berlin: Curtius, 1908. Prevenier, Walter, and Willem Blockmans. T ...

composed and dictated in the Picard dialect of this region. Brunetto’s two most important and influential works were written in ...

——. The Book of the Treasure (Li livres dou tresor), trans. Paul Barrette and Spurgeon Baldwin. New York: Garland, 1993. ——. Il ...

BRUNO (ca. 1030–1101). Founder of the Carthusian order. Originally from Cologne, Bruno served as canon, schoolmaster, and eventu ...

In his subsequent retirement, Jean V composed his famous Le Jouvencel (ca. 1466)— part autobiographical reflection, part art of ...

from personal contact with those who were making history. His narrative begins with the murder of John the Fearless at Montereau ...

settled in the Roman Empire in the 5th century, who established a kingdom that lasted close to a century; centered at Geneva, it ...

but the kingdom of lower Burgundy was never again an independent entity. In the meantime, upper or trans-Saône Burgundy had also ...

in 956, the duchy was taken by Hugh Capet’s brother Otto, who married Giselbert’s daughter, and, after Otto’s death, by Henri, a ...

1404–19), Philip the Good (r. 1419–67), and Charles the Bold (r. 1467–77), made Burgundy the capital of a powerful principality ...

BAUDE; DIJON; DUFAY, GUILLAUME; FRANCHE-COMTÉ; HAYNE VAN GHIZEGHEM; PHILIP THE BOLD; PHILIP THE GOOD; VÉZELAY; WINE TRADE] Blign ...

Busnoys’s rondeau Bel Acueil (“Fair Welcome”), the Mellon Chansonnier. MS 91, fols. lv-2. Courtesy of Beinecke Library for Rare ...