Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Cluny’s last great abbot was Peter the Venerable (r. 1122–56), who gave sanctuary to Abélard and engaged in debates with Bernard ...

symbolized his magnificence and remains a monument of Gothic architecture. His most significant public action was to finance the ...

COINS/COINAGE . See CURRENCY COLIN MUSET (fl. 2nd third of the 13th c.). Trouvèrejongleur of the second third of the 13th centur ...

The present Saint-Martin (1237–1366) replaced a 10th-century church. The transept was built first, followed by the nave, and the ...

Robert G.Calkins [See also: MANUSCRIPTS, PRODUCTION AND ILLUMINATION] Schaeffer, C. “Œuvres du début du la carrière de l’enlumin ...

McKitterick, Rosamond. The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751–987. London: Longman, 1983, pp. 87–91. Murray, Alexande ...

of rights achieved in an era when legal thought played a minor role. The belfry, however, represents the original strength of th ...

side, perhaps for mercenary motives, and entered the service of the king of France, who compensated him with new titles and the ...

COMPAGNIES D’ORDONNANCE. Units of the regular French army established in the 15th century. By 1400, independent mercenary compan ...

COMPLANT/MÉPLANT . The complant, or méplant, contract (Lat. medium vestum) was used primarily to put land back into cultivation ...

be identified as the F.Andrieu who composed a lament on the death of Machaut to texts by Eustache Deschamps, Armes, amours/O flo ...

EGIDIUS DE MURINO; JACOB DE SENLECHES; MATHEUS DE SANCTO JOHANNE; PHILIPPUS DE CASERTA; TAPISSIER, JOHANNES] Apel, Willi, ed. Fr ...

Binchois, music that establishes their reputation as the finest song composers of the century. There is also a fair number of ev ...

For all those reasons, it is often hard to qualify a composer as “minor” in the 15th century. Any newly discovered musical sourc ...

Brunel, Clovis. “Le comput en vers provençaux attribué à Raimon Féraut.” Annales du Midi 36(1924):269–87. COMTE D’ARTOIS, ROMAN ...

CONCILIAR MOVEMENT . Conciliarism, like papalism, had its roots in the medieval heritage, especially in the diverse texts found ...

clergy, especially their attacks on the privileges of the mendicants, with the interests of the French crown. None of the propos ...

last, a compromise permitted enactment of some reforms before a special electoral college began its conclave. The chief of these ...

Haec sancta, the chief prop of Basel’s new dogma, as merely the act of one obedience in the Great Schism, and launched a diploma ...

CONCORDAT OF AMBOISE . In an ordinance issued at Amboise on October 13, 1472, Louis XI proclaimed in France a concordat with Pop ...