Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Dominican foundations, it has a flat chevet and two equal naves divided by pillars. The Tour du Chapelet is a reminder of the 14 ...

AGINCOURT . The greatest English victory of the Hundred Years’ War came when France was divided by the Armagnac-Burgundian feud. ...

numerous middlemen who had inserted themselves between peasants and owners often meant that what remained of the old Carolingian ...

system was probably introduced after clearance of additional land from forest and waste to make a third field. Even where it was ...

of the profits of expansion by encouraging settlement advance and technological innovation were all more important than the reli ...

irrigation practices from Arab-controlled parts of Spain in this later period, and except in the vicinity of the great cities wh ...

specifically to salt, retained the old name of gabelle. The other two were a tax on wine (at first about 8 percent but later rai ...

stone—and an imposing tower, the Tour de Constance, set slightly apart from the walls themselves. Dredging and canal building we ...

sight of the port had to put in at Aigues-Mortes. Self-government, on the other hand, was severely circumscribed by the presence ...

Abbonis, written in the early 11th century, depicts the life of Abbot Abbo of Fleury, who died in 1004. Books 2 and 3 of the Mir ...

that the poet was not comfortable with the decasyllable, a traditional meter of this genre, and gradually moved to one that allo ...

AIRVAULT . The former abbey church of Saint-Pierre at Airvault (Deux-Sèvres) was founded under the patronage of Aldéarde, the la ...

from 1376. The church of Saint-Sauveur is an amalgam of styles, from a 5th-century baptistery surrounded by eight recuperated Ro ...

Sullivan, Richard E. Aix-la Chapelle in the Age of Charlemagne. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. ALAIN DE LILLE (ca. ...

tradition of pentitential canons to present the first known manual for confessors. The Ars praedicandi, which applied rhetorical ...

——. Plaint of Nature, trans. James J.Sheridan. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1980. Evans, Gillian R. Alan ...

ALARD DE CAMBRAI (fl. mid-13th c.). In the 13th century, Alard de Cambrai translated into French verse the Moralium dogma philos ...

ALBERT THE GREAT (Albertus Magnus; ca. 1200–1280). Now remembered as a theologian and philosopher, this teacher of Thomas Aquina ...

Weisheipl, James A. Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays 1980. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Stud ...

Albigeois became a rallying point in the great struggle of the Midi against the Inquisition. Both the episcopal and communal pow ...