Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Laurent Joubert’s Erreurs populaire au fait de la médecine et régime de santé, whose 1576 edition included catalogues of sundry ...

valid tools. In his Time, Work and Culture (1980), Le Goff discussed the function of blood tabus in certain professions, the con ...

Schmitt, Jean-Claude. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century, trans. Martin Thom. Cambri ...

Fontenay, Cistercian abbey church, cloister. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. Fontenay (Côte d’Or), Cistercian abbey c ...

prosperous Cistercian foundations in the Middle Ages, with some 300 monks and postulants. The abbey church, begun ca. 1130 thank ...

Fontevrault (Maine-et-Loire), abbey kitchen. Photograph courtesy of Grover A.Zinn. Medieval france: an encyclopedia 684 ...

Fontevrault, abbey kitchen, vaults. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. church and under the single rule of an abbess. I ...

FOOD TRADES . Most medieval people spent well over half of their incomes on food and drink, making the trade in victuals the mos ...

secured their own supplies. The church’s ban on meat during Lent, certain feast days, and every Friday and Saturday, made fish a ...

of the lord of the father, others that of the lord of the mother, and still others that of the lord of the seigneurie within whi ...

coinage. In this case, the hearth clearly referred to households, as it tended to throughout northern France. Towns sometimes ra ...

——. A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem 1095–1127, ed. Harold S.Fink, trans. Frances R.Ryan. Knoxville: University of Tenne ...

Despite being taken and razed by Henry II Plantagenêt in 1166, much of the fortress has been preserved through extensive and fre ...

was genuine: he was able to maintain control over Maine in the face of attacks by the Norman duke William the Conqueror and his ...

Jean Fouquet, Hours of Étienne Chevalier. The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful. Courtesy of the Lehman Collection, Metr ...

elevated to the standing of a distinct ministerium, or mestier, of the royal hostel, or inner household, at some time between 12 ...

descendants of Otto-William (d. 1026), count of Mâcon and claimant to the duchy of Burgundy. The independence of the county was ...

Francis focused on complete poverty, simplicity and humility, and preaching, characteristics that were identified with the “apos ...

contemplative prayer, and pastoral care of individuals through preaching and hearing confessions. Conflict with local clergy is ...

alms, fasted, prayed, accepted the rule of perpetual silence, and refused to accept the usual kind of endowments that supported ...