Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Lillich, Meredith P. The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. van der Meulen, J ...

house of Burgundy in 1455. Re-appointed in 1467 by Philip’s successor, Charles the Bold, who named him a knight of the Golden Fl ...

CHÂTEAU-GAILLARD . One of the first European castles raised in the style of the crusader fortifications of the Holy Land. Built ...

CHÂTEAU-LANDON . Of the medieval monuments of Château-Landon (Seine-et-Marne), only the church of Notre-Dame retains its archite ...

Outardel, Georges. “Châteaudun, monuments religieux.” Congrès archéologique (Orléans) 93(1930):442–76. CHÂTILLON . Taking its na ...

Bur, Michel. La formation du comté de Champagne. Nancy: Annales de l’Est, 1977. Corvisier, Marie-Anne. “Le comté de Blois sous l ...

Chauvigny (Vienne), view of town. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. Chauvigny was a possession of the bishops of Poiti ...

Charlemagne’s younger brother, Carloman (d. 771), when he accompanied them to the Lombard king Desiderius in Pavia. From this co ...

CHEVALIER AU BARISEL . Also known as Le conte du barril, this pious tale from the early 13th century is transmitted to us in thr ...

CHILDERIC I (ca. 436–482). The father of Clovis I and the first fully historical figure of the Merovingian dynasty, Childeric I ...

The care and treatment of children are documented sparsely until the late Middle Ages, from which period date texts concerning c ...

provision to Salic Law permitting daughters to inherit ancestral lands if no brothers were alive. Steven Fanning [See also: BRUN ...

CHIVALRY . The word chevalerie, related to chevalier ‘knight,’ has been used as a collective noun, to refer to a body of knights ...

generosity. If largesse was important to the poorer knights, it also received emphasis from the troubadours, who sang or recited ...

chivalric lifestyle was an essential element in providing the necessary pool of personnel. What had changed was the attitude tow ...

romance is incomplete. But there is also evidence that Chrétien died before completing it. The last 1,000 lines of the Charrette ...

Chrétien’s romances each average about 7,000 lines and comprise two parts, with the exception of the Conte du graal, which exten ...

The san that Chrétien says he received for the Charrette from Marie de Champagne seems to imply context, significance, an inform ...

Marital problems do arise, but they are also solved. Chrétien insists on a certain equality between the spouses. Not that he mea ...

——. Les chansons courtoises de Chrétien de Troyes, ed. Marie-Claire Zai. Bern: Lang & Lang, 1974. ——. Arthurian Romances, tr ...