Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

France remained unrecorded. By the mid-15th century, the need for an official record of every regional custom led Charles VII to ...

CYCLIC MASS . The term “cyclic Mass” generally refers to polyphonic settings of most or all of the five principal items of the O ...

composing Masses on this particular popular song that was followed by generations of composers throughout the 15th and 16th cent ...

Burkholder, J.Peter. “Johannes Martini and the Imitation Mass of the Late Fifteenth Century.” Journal of the American Musicologi ...

D DAGOBERT, PSEUDOCYCLE OF . The Frankish king Dagobert I (r. 622–38/39) was the inspiration for a revival of the French epic ar ...

Saracens, but nothing further is learned of him because the end of the single manuscript (B.N. fr. 24372) is missing. Theseus de ...

exercised supervision of the church in his kingdom, saw to the appointment of bishops of good quality, and supported missionary ...

D’Ailly devoted most of his public life to ecclesiastical reform and to healing the Great Schism by means of a general council. ...

DAMPIERRE . A noble family from Champagne, the Dampierres were counts of Flanders from 1246 to 1384. Guillaume de Dampierre in 1 ...

now I know very divinely indeed how to...dance the ‘Sanctus’ and the ‘Agnus’ and the ‘Cunctipotens.”’ Between the 6th and 17th c ...

Example 1. MS Pluteo 29, I, fol. 471– 471v. Courtesy of the Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Florence. Nicholaus pontifex Nostrum ...

violin. From other references and pictorial evidence, we know that this was the favorite instrument for performing all types of ...

information that its poetic subject is to center on “love and homage” and supports Grocheio’s description of the estampie’s diff ...

[See also: BASSE DANSE; ESTAMPIE; GROCHEIO, JOHANNES DE; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; RONDEAU] Anderson, Gordon A. Notre-Dame and Relate ...

DAUPHINÉ/VIENNOIS . The region that came to be known as the Dauphiné is bounded by the Rhône and Savoie on the west and north, b ...

DAUREL ET BETON . A single 14th-century manuscript (B.N. nouv. acq. fr. 4232) preserves 2,200 lines of this Occitan chanson de g ...

Thomas M.Izbicki [See also: CANON LAW; CLERICIS LAICOS; INNOCENT III; LAW AND JUSTICE] Friedberg, Emil, ed. Quinque compilatione ...

DÉFRICHEMENT . Literally, the clearing away of brush; more generally, any reclamation of arable land from the waste. The major m ...

them six miles from Paris. There she built a mausoleum and later a basilica, where miraculous cures occurred. This text, or a ve ...

celebrating Mass in prison with his disciples, just as he was about to receive the sacrament, Christ came and took the eucharist ...