Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Charles VII imposed taxes without consulting any central assembly, but, where customary, he continued to summon the provincial E ...

ESTOUTEVILLE . The Estoutevilles were a great seigneurial family whose senior line was based at Vallemont in the Caux district o ...

Vatteroni, Sergio. “Peire Cardenal et l’estribot.” Medioevo Romanzo 15(1990):61–91. ÉTAMPES . Only three bays of the crypt remai ...

interests, the Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus is organized according to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and is ...

(“Clerics should pray for everyone, knights unhesitatingly should defend and honor, and peasants labor.”) The purpose of the poe ...

EUCHARISTIC VENERATION AND VESSELS . The early church looked upon the eucharist more as an action than as an object. Veneration ...

[See also: JULIANA OF MONT-CORNILLON; MASS, CHANTS AND TEXTS] Braun, Joseph. Das christliche Altargerät in seinem Sein und in se ...

perhaps best remembered for the careful records that he kept of his regular visits to the parishes and churches in his archdioce ...

John of Salisbury. Memoirs of the Papal Court, ed. and trans. Marjorie Chibnall. London: Nelson, 1956. Brezzi, Paolo. Roma e l’i ...

John Bell Henneman, Jr. Although the town of Évreux was largely destroyed in World War II, some medieval buildings have survived ...

Fossey, Jules. Monographie de la cathédrale d’Évreux. Évreux: Imprimerie de l’Eure, 1898. Solet, François. “La cathédrale d’Évre ...

EXPOSITIO MISSAE . The tradition of expounding the meaning of liturgical ceremonies began in the 4th century with the mystagogic ...

of the Mass, that is, the prayer of the priest leading up to the Sanctus. Late in the Middle Ages, this melody was also adapted ...

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F FABLE (ISOPET) . Of the celebrated inventor of the genre, Aesop of Thrace (6th c. B.C.), medieval writers and compilers of fab ...

justification, she likely knew, or knew of the Romulus of Nilant, with which she shares most of the initial forty of her 102–104 ...

manuscript (B.N. fr. 1553) in 142 monorhymed decasyllabic quatrains. The narrative includes a bird debate and an encounter with ...

even as parody. The range of fabliau subjects and methods is extraordinarily wide, varying from linguistic playfulness and compl ...

The fabliaux, although related by inspiration and often by specific thematic properties to earlier works from Europe, the classi ...

The fabliaux frequently show an interest in language and its uses or misuses. Some are mere puns: in Estula, a man calls to his ...