Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Martin Picker [See also: BURGUNDY; OCKEGHEM, JOHANNES] Busnoys, Antoine. Collected Works. New York: Broude Trust, 1990. Parts 2 ...

C CABOCHIENS . The butchers and flayers of Paris, nicknamed the Cabochiens after one of their leaders, Simon Caboche, created a ...

CAEN . The medieval city of Caen (Calvados) gained importance in the 11th century owing to the favor of William the Conqueror, w ...

Caen, Saint-Étienne, façade. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. Hundred Years’ War, the town suffered much damage at th ...

Caen, La Trinité, plan. After Musset. In the last quarter of the 11th century, William the Conqueror transformed the site on the ...

Founded by monks of Saint-Étienne, the 11th-century parish church of Saint-Nicolas retains the Romanesque choir of Saint-Étienne ...

——. Caesarius of Arles: Sermons, trans. Mary Magdeleine Mueller. 3 vols. New York: Fathers of the Church, 1956–73. Daly, W.M. “C ...

from the martyrdom of St. Stephen. The porch and exterior wall have been overrestored in this century. The Pont Valentré, despit ...

CALAIS, JEAN DE (fl. early 15th c.). A poem of some 410 lines in the Jardin de plaisance, Calais’s Lamentations is a series of d ...

with Christmas and the Epiphany, December 25 and January 6; and a major sequence associated with Easter, which is celebrated on ...

partial collapse of the tower in 1161. Before the nave was completed, ca. 1180, the transept was begun. It was completed in the ...

CANON LAW . The medieval church was governed by universal canon law and local laws and customs. The former was taught at the uni ...

4th century saw important steps toward the formation of the Offices. Drawing from eastern rites, Ambrose (340–397) brought the a ...

van der Werf, Hendrik, and Wolf Frobenius. “Cantus coronatus.” In Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, ed. Hans Heinri ...

anointed administrators of justice, and they had several advantages that the Carolingians and Ottonians, or for that matter most ...

and most of the crusading activity of the 13th century was led or influenced by Louis IX. In 1303, Philip IV did make an open br ...

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The Capetians rose from obscurity to unquestioned power in the space of three centuries. The kings of the 11th century added pol ...

biographical portrait by his close friend Joinville. Though revered more for his personal qualities, his dispensing of justice, ...

CAPITULARY . The documents recording the legislative acts of certain Carolingian kings, which contemporary sources refer to as c ...