Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

DOON DE MAYENCE . A chanson de geste consisting of two parts: Les enfances Doon and Doon de Mayence. The first part may have bee ...

DOUIN DE LAVESNE (fl. mid-13th c.). Author of Trubert, a poem of 2,984 octosyllables. Masquerading variously as a fool, a carpen ...

Duby, Georges. The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, trans. Barbara Bray. New Y ...

The most important religious structure in Dreux was the now-destroyed collegial church of Saint-Étienne, a royal foundation with ...

Schmidt, Karl. Jus primae noctis: Eine geschichtliche Untersuchung. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1881. DROUART LA VACHE (fl. la ...

DUFAY, GUILLAUME (Du Fay, Du Fayt; 1397–1474). Composer, musician, and cleric. During a career that spanned over fifty years, Du ...

settings, was composed for the Burgundian chapel. Louis, duke of Savoy, continued to woo the composer as well, and during an ext ...

his Missa Ave regina, uses the chant melody as a cantus firmus and includes emotional prayers on behalf of the composer himself. ...

(equivalent) dignities of patricius, or “patrician,” and rector and above that of comes, or “count.” Like the patriciate and rec ...

DUNOIS, JEAN, COMTE DE (1402–1468). The bastard of Louis, duke of Orléans, Jean was raised in his father’s home and became the e ...

Great and Thomas Aquinas but was intent less on constructing a system than on pursuing, often relentlessly, solutions to philoso ...

DUPIN, JEAN (1302–1374). Prior of Saint-Martin-des-Champs and then abbot of Cluny (1369–74), Dupin wrote the Livre de Mandevie b ...

E EAUX ET FORÊTS . Forests, streams, and ponds were an important source of income to any seigneur fortunate enough to possess su ...

surmounted by a cupola. The chevet, reconstructed in the Île-de-France style (late 12th- early 13th c.), has cross-ribbed vaults ...

ÉCHANSON/ÉCHANSONNERIE . The Old French title échanson was given to the members of the household of a lord who were charged with ...

as Jean de Meun but also found inspiration in Vincent de Beauvais, Brunetto Latini, and others. Emanuel J.Mickel [See also: JEAN ...

ÉCOUIS . The church of Écouis (Eure) was founded by Enguerran de Marigny ca. 1310 and finished within three years. Its original ...

probably were put to work at about age seven. Also characteristic of the late Middle Ages is the increasing vulgarization of rel ...

between English and French sailors led to appeals to Philip. The issue came to involve Edward’s feudal status in Gascony when Ph ...

Ultimately, the tension between the two crowns erupted in the War of Saint-Sardos. In 1323, one of Edward’s vassals violently re ...