Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

various forms of courtly verse. He has been identified with a certain “magister Dionisius,” a monk of St. Edmund’s abbey mention ...

Deschamps’s bulky œuvre is almost all preserved in a single thick manuscript compiled a few years after his death (B.N. fr. 840) ...

DEVISE . See MOTTO/DEVISE DIDACTIC LITERATURE (OCCITAN) . Although two of the earliest works in Occitan are religious, the Chans ...

Anglade, Joseph. Histoire sommaire de la littérature méridionale au moyen âge. Paris: Boccard, 1921. Berger, Samuel. “Les Bibles ...

in order to sustain themselves. The staples of this diet were probably bread, beer or wine, stewed vegetables (especially onions ...

DIJON . A small city during the Gallo-Roman epoch, Dijon (Côte-d’Or) was fortified by the emperor Aurelian ca. 273. The dukes of ...

The church of Notre-Dame (1230–51), designed in the style of Saint-Bénigne, is a fine example of early 13th-century Burgundian G ...

DIPLOMA . Under Roman law, most transactions had required a written record, or diploma. These records became much less common in ...

of Tours), and a third probably claimed Hugh Capet in 996. Frequent outbreaks occurred in the 13th century, in the wake of inten ...

century, notably in the hands of Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart, authors of dits amoureux, combining elements of romanc ...

There were many different traditions for celebrating the Divine Office in Gaul before the establishment of the Roman liturgy in ...

used in this article.) Probably because a monk or cleric was considered late if he arrived after the invitatory psalm, the perfo ...

singing of the New Testament canticle Magnificat (Luke 1:46–55). Compline, said just before retiring, varied little from day to ...

Möller, Hartmut. “Die Feier des Metzer Osteroffiziums im 9. Jahrhundert.” In Feste und Feiern im Mittelalter: Paderborner Sympos ...

of preachers had settled at Toulouse. They assumed the Rule of St. Augustine and were confirmed as an order by Pope Honorius III ...

exercise pastoral care of each monastery of Dominican nuns. This heavy pastoral investment in the care of the order’s sisters ca ...

struggle with heretics. The cities of Flanders, in particular, knew their share of heterodox believers. But it was learning, and ...

The order began to combat the relaxation of its religious regime under the direction of Raymond of Capua late in the 14th centur ...

DOMONT . The church of Sainte-Madeleine at Domont (Val d’Oise), a dependency of the Parisian abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs af ...

DONATION OF PEPIN . An 8th-century document that transferred control of a strip of land in Italy to Pope Sylvester II, effective ...