Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Ribard, Jacques. Un ménestrel du XIVe siècle: Jean de Condé. Geneva: Droz, 1969. CONDUCTUS . A Latin poem relying on syllable co ...

CONFRÉRIE DE LA PASSION . Most religious confraternities in France considered organizing performances of plays as supplementary ...

permission to leave”). Their example was followed in 1276 or 1277 by Adam de la Halle, who was leaving his city in perfect healt ...

Conon de Béthune. Les chansons de Conon de Béthune, ed. Axel Wallensköld. Paris: Champion, 1921. Rosenberg, Samuel N., and Hans ...

complete experience of a medieval pilgrimage church. The dates of construction are controversial. If erected, according to the t ...

The contrast between the sober façade and the rich tympanum, and discrepancies within the tympanum and its frame, have fostered ...

were considered related within four degrees. By the 8th century, however, the church defined consanguinity as residing within se ...

not only “advice” but also “advice-giving bodies.” By the 14th century, a royal council was called not only conseil in French bu ...

among these officers, even in military affairs, was the seneschal. Only after 1191, when Philip II let that office remain vacant ...

giving birth to a daughter. It is ironic that the woman Louis married after divorcing Eleanor for consanguinity was just as clos ...

lime mortar used in place of pozzolan limited their scale, and large interior spaces were covered by timber roofs. Yet, despite ...

with the result that each constituent space is related to the larger whole. In a similar vein, Carolingian construction achieved ...

The mastery of masonry vaulting was the most significant technological stride made by Romanesque builders. The first completely ...

Roman architecture, upon standardized forms. At Chartres, Soissons, and Cologne, the prefabrication, which extended to pier comp ...

Mark, Robert. Gothic Structural Experimentation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982. ——, ed. Architectural Technology up to the Scientif ...

documents the influence of English musical style upon Dufay, Binchois, and other Franco-Burgundian composers during the second q ...

treat one another as equals), and for the granting of castles by one knightly family to another. Constance H.Berman Magnou-Norti ...

reached particular complexity in convents that had both male and female communities, such as Fontevrault and Saint-Louis-de-Pois ...

COOKING . Most cooking in medieval France was done in a pot over a fire, suspended by a hook or held up by a trivet. Into this c ...

COQUILLART, GUILLAUME (1452?–1510). First a lawyer in Paris, then an official of Reims cathedral, Coquillart wrote mock court ca ...