Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Boston, Massachusetts Kristen E.Sukalec University of Pittsburgh Robert Sweetman Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto Emily ...

Collège de France Grover A.Zinn Oberlin College Janice C.Zinser Oberlin College Ronald Edward Zupko Marquette University ...

A ABBEVILLE. The town of Abbeville (Somme) was an important center on the Somme River that became the seat of the county of Pont ...

In 1257, Abbeville was the site of negotiations that culminated in an Anglo-French treaty by which Henry III and Louis IX renoun ...

Venerable offered Abélard a refuge at Cluny. According to Peter, Bernard and Abélard were reconciled before Abélard died in Apri ...

sermons for use at the Paraclete, an Apologia, and Hexaemeron (a commentary on the six days of creation in Genesis). Abélard lef ...

When a fief passed from an individual to a corporate body, it was said to change from a state of main vive to a state of main mo ...

ACCOUNTING . The topic can be divided into the categories of private and public accounting. French royal accounting received con ...

ACHARD OF SAINT-VICTOR (d. 1170/71). Born in England, Achard became abbot of Saint-Victor, Paris, in 1155, succeeding the commun ...

faithful—recalled that of Judas and gained him the epithet vetulus traditor and the nickname Ascelin. His motivations were more ...

profession, which reached its height with Molière. The extant manuscripts preserve some of the music for the songs included in t ...

Bretel, who alludes to Adam’s superior education, his youth, and his loves. Before 1271, the date of Bretel’s death, Adam was al ...

ADAM DU PETIT-PONT (Adam of Bosham or Adam Balsham; fl. early 12th c.). A shadowy figure, Adam was a dialectician and moral theo ...

Fassler, Margot. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris. Cambridge: Cambridge Universi ...

Lewis, Andrew W. Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State. Cambridge: Harvard University Pre ...

Gaborit-Chopin, Danielle. “Les dessins d’Adémar de Chabannes.” Bulletin du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques n.s. ...

Spain, which was an important center of cross-cultural transmission from East to West. Surprisingly, Adenet abandons all pretens ...

ADMIRAL OF FRANCE . During the late Middle Ages, the admiral had central command of the royal navy of France as well as serving ...

consulted their advocate before electing a new abbot. A layman who founded or reformed a monastery in the 11th century normally ...

William Chester Jordan [See also: HOMME DE CORPS; SERFDOM/SERVITUDE/ SLAVERY] Bernard, Pierre. Étude sur les esclaves et les ser ...