Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

This crisis enabled the dukes to regain their power. The king considered himself recovered within five weeks, but other psychoti ...

CHARLES VII (1403–1461). One of the best known but least understood of the medieval kings of France, Charles VII was the elevent ...

ORLÉANS CAMPAIGN; RECONQUEST OF FRANCE; RICHEMONT, ARTHUR DE; TREMOILLE, LA] Beaucourt, Gaston du Fresne de. Histoire de Charles ...

Labande-Mailfert, Yvonne. Charles VIII et son milieu (1470–1498): la jeunesse au pouvoir. Paris: Klincksieck, 1975. ——. Charles ...

CHARLES D’ORLÉANS (1394–1465). Son of Valentina, daughter of the duke of Milan, and Louis, duke of Orléans and brother of King C ...

Charles d’Orléans is known particularly for his use of allegory and the introspective nature of his poetry. Recurring themes in ...

CHARLES MARTEL (ca. 688/9–741). The founder of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles Martel was the dominant figure of western Europe ...

Charles’s death in 741 temporarily broke the unity of the Frankish kingdom. His elder son, Carloman, was made mayor over Austras ...

three, to undertake one. His plans were thwarted first by the king’s difficult negotiations with the pope on how to finance an e ...

November. Marching to the rescue at the end of the year, the Swiss won their third victory in ten months on January 5, 1477, a b ...

CHARLOTTE OF SAVOY (1439–1483). Queen of France. The youngest daughter of Louis, duke of Savoy, and Anne of Cyprus, Charlotte of ...

VII to the south of France, may even have its role, intersecting with the theme of pilgrimage to Saint-Gilles. The structure of ...

CHARTIER, ALAIN (ca. 1385-ca. 1430). Author and diplomat, known chiefly for his controversial poem, the Belle dame sans merci, a ...

belief in the power of his own courtly rhetoric. To the lover, who says he will die if she does not take pity on him, she sugges ...

to have borrowed from his Latin to provide the first known occurrence of the word patrie in this work, as well as the concept of ...

Walravens, C.J.H. Alain Chartier: études biographiques, suivies de pieces justificatives, d’une description des éditions et d’un ...

Chartres, Notre-Dame, west façade. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. Brétigny. The English occupied Chartres from 1417 ...

William of Conches, Bernard Silvestris, and Clarembald of Arras. John of Salisbury was bishop of Chartres from 1176 until his de ...

Chartres, Notre-Dame, west façade, central portal, Christ in Majesty. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesey of Oberlin ...

Chartres, Notre-Dame, nave. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. choir retains its 12th-century plan of five bays terminat ...