Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

FIEF/FEUDUM . Revenue-producing property granted to a vassal in return for military service. The term feudum became common in th ...

lord, and it was presumed that his heir would normally take up the same fief, subject to doing homage to the lord’s heir. Althou ...

Structures féodales et féodalisme dans l’Occident méditerranean (Xe-XIIIe siècles). Paris: CNRS, 1980. FIEF-RENTE . Fiefs-rente, ...

is taken prisoner. Most of Charlemagne’s peers follow Oliver and are likewise captured by the emir, among others Gui de Bourgogn ...

FILLE DU COMTE DE PONTHIEU . The first short story in Old French prose, composed in the early 13th century, the Fille du comte d ...

put on two to four years of growth, the pond was drained to harvest them, seeded to grain for a year or so, then refilled and re ...

exactly to those in the calendar years 1197, 1223, and 1234. Easily drawing on the medieval repertoire of rhetorical figures, th ...

I of England, and the Flemish cities used the confusion to gain concessions from both sides, the cities and nobles chose as coun ...

during the clearance movements led to the emancipation of most of the others from labor services by the 13th century except for ...

Countess Marguerite was succeeded by her son, Gui de Dampierre (r. 1278–1305). He was greeted in 1280 with a series of uprisings ...

captive to Paris, and Flanders came under direct French rule. The extreme measures of the French officials provoked a reaction, ...

evade the monopoly of Ghent on French grain coming down the Lys River by digging a canal into the Lys south of Ghent. The cities ...

Vandermaesen, M. “Vlaanderen en Henegouwen onder het Huis van Dampierre, 1244–1384.” In Algemene Geschiedenis der Nederlanden. 2 ...

Bouchard, Constance B., ed. The Cartulary of Flavigny, 717–1123. Cambridge: Medieval Academy of America, 1991. Sapin, Christian. ...

magnificent goblet, decorated with scenes from the story of Paris and Helen, and is smuggled into the tower in a basket of flowe ...

Hans-Erich Keller Andolf, Sven, ed. Floovent: chanson de geste du XIIe siècle. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1941. [With import ...

Bossuat, Robert. “Florent et Octavien, chanson de geste du XIVe siècle.” Romania 73(1952):289– 31. Krappe, Alexandre H. “Florent ...

Languedoc. In 1290, its territory increased with the marriage of Count Roger-Bernard III to Marguerite, heiress of the viscounty ...

hound Husdent can pick out the hero, who, in the Oxford Folie, must revert to his own voice to convince the queen to receive him ...

Aymon, but also with the symbols of folly and with obscene gestures to ward off evil, along with references to social customs, l ...