Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

CORDIER, BAUDE (d. 1397/98). Composer and harp player, now believed to be identifiable with Baude Fresnel of Reims, harpist and ...

[See also: AMIENS; PARIS; ROBERT DE LUZARCHES] Branner, Robert. Saint Louis and the Court Style in Gothic Architecture. London: ...

mantle, ring, scepters, crown). The ceremony closed with a Mass and was followed by a postcoronation banquet. The constitutive a ...

century and, along with certain unrepealed and much-resented seigneurial ones, lasted until the French Revolution. Less common a ...

Enaud, François. Coucy. 2nd ed. Paris: CNMHS, 1978. Lefèvre-Pontalis, Eugène. Le château de Coucy. Paris: Laurens, 1913. Lepinoi ...

dominions whose boundaries were usually those of the castellanies and baronies whose lords had been persuaded to hold them in fi ...

COUR DES AIDES . See GÉNÉRAUX COURONNEMENT DE LOUIS . This epic, one of the oldest of the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle (pre-1150; 2, ...

COURTESY BOOKS . Broadly defined as vernacular works for lay audiences that teach etiquette, comportment, and moral values accor ...

Female instruction is the principal aim of two late 14th-century treatises. The Livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry (1371–72), ...

Brereton, Georgine E., and Janet M.Ferrier, eds. Le menagier de Paris. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981. Christine de Pizan. The Treasure ...

bizarre” (Romania 10:469). The idolatrous passion of Lancelot for Guenevere entails a type of rule-oriented behavior, predicated ...

love of a highly specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of ...

texts’ irony, framed as a rhetorical question, is succinctly co-gent: “How [or, we might add, why] could one mock or parody some ...

century, most tellingly displayed in Alain Chartier’s oblique condemnation of unrewarded love service in La belle dame sans merc ...

three coats: the fine one he loses in the tavern, the ragged garment he wears as a swineherd, and the new robe given him on his ...

COUTANCES . The city of Coutances (Manche) existed from Roman times (when it was called Constantia) and became a bishopric in th ...

While some features, especially the unity of choir aisles and chapels, are reminiscent of French Gothic cathedrals, such as Bour ...

Lemarignier, Jean-François. “La dislocation du pagus et le problème des consuetudines: Xe–XIe siècles.” In Mélanges d’histoire d ...

supporting the duke of Burgundy against the Marmousets and Orléanists at court, but when John the Fearless succeeded his father ...

Bertrand de Broussillon, Arthur. La maison de Craon, 1050—1480:étude historique, accompagnée du cartulaire de Craon. 2 vols. Par ...