Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

comparisons among these copies indicate substantial homogeneity in transmission. The treatise displays a detachment and succinct ...

Aliscans, Gui de Nanteuil, Bues d’Aigremont, Foulque de Candie, and Doon de Mayence. Romance works include Le roman de Troie, La ...

The many unsolved questions surrounding Franco-Italian as a language system are complicated by the fact that one is not confront ...

heterogeneous publics, expands and enhances the study of both the French and Italian national traditions. Nancy Bradley-Cromey [ ...

should have reverted to the Penthièvre branch of the ducal family, now represented by Nicole of Brittany, whose claim Louis XI h ...

the Roman army and rose to positions of command. Franks could be found in Roman service in Spain, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Mesopot ...

theory of fraud developed, giving rise to various remedies of justice including restitution and disbarment from the practice of ...

Krusch, Bruno, ed. “Chronicarum quae dicuntur Fredegarii Scholastici Libri IV cum continuationibus.” In Monumenta Germaniae Hist ...

Ganshof, François L. Frankish Institutions Under Charlemagne, trans. Bryce and Mary Lyon. New York: Norton, 1968. Goebel, Julius ...

earlier period, which had included many features shared throughout the empire, gave way to divergence and to the formation of th ...

unstable sounds that were lost early. The symbol < means “comes from, came from,” and means “becomes, became.”) Two general ...

environment and often led to the creation of diphthongs. One such instance is that of tonic free a preceded by /k/. In that posi ...

and those of Poitou and Saintonge (southwest). The dialects were marked by regionalisms and may not have been entirely mutually ...

Another class of nouns, both masc. and fem., had a nom. sg. form that was always shorter than its other forms (e.g., ber—baron, ...

The simple past presented weak and strong forms. Weak forms included all -er, -ier, most -ir, and many -re verbs. Of the four ty ...

verb-complement was common in both prose and poetry, another order, that of complement-verb-subject (+possible additional comple ...

FROISSART, JEAN (1337-after 1404). The greatest French chronicler, as well as an outstanding poet and romancer, Jean Froissart w ...

Froissart’s Chroniques are divided into four books. Book 1 was recast by the chronicler into four redactions. It relates events ...

The Orloge amoureus is the only dit written in decasyllabic couplets (unlike the others composed in octosyllables). Its 1,174 ve ...

poet, addressing a nightingale, extolls the beauty of his ladylove. Purely lyrical also is the Dit de la margueritte (192 lines) ...