Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

deprivation than over personal loss, and she quickly and capably sets out to find a replacement. La veuve is a small but importa ...

tomb (the episode from which the romance takes its title). In addition to Chrétien’s romance, the poet of the Atre périlleux kno ...

Raoul von Houdenc. Sämtliche Werke, ed. Mathias Friedwagner. 2 vols. Halle: Niemeyer, 1909, Vol. 2: La Vengeance Raguidel: Altfr ...

GÉNÉRAUX . With the growth of royal taxation after the mid-14th century, both the French crown and its critics groped their way ...

GENEVIÈVE (ca. 420–ca. 512). Saint and patroness of Paris. When Attila and his Huns threatened Paris in 451, Geneviève, a woman ...

By the countship of Geoffroi IV Plantagenêt (r. 1129–51), the authority of the count had been much restored. Geoffroi continued ...

GERBERT OF AURILLAC (Pope Sylvester II; ca. 945–1003). Gerbert was born in the Auvergne and educated at the monastery of Saint-G ...

Germigny-des-Prés (Loiret), Carolingian oratory of Theodulf, plan, long section, and reconstructed view from east. After Conant ...

GERSON, JEAN (Jean Charlier; 1363–1429). Theologian, scholar, teacher, translator, poet, mystic, and humanist, Gerson was one of ...

works include De vita spirituali animae, in which he locates ecclesiastical authority in church councils rather than in the pope ...

governed by the Thirty-Nine, three cooptative boards of councilors who rotated annually and were notoriously corrupt, provoking ...

two machicolated turrets supported by buttresses. Within the walls are a massive keep, some 100 feet tall with walls over 6 feet ...

influenced subsequent exegetes: Peter Lombard’s biblical commentaries, for example, rely heavily on Gilbert’s work. Gilbert retu ...

GILDUIN OF SAINT-VICTOR (d. 1155). The first abbot of Saint-Victor, a house of regular canons at Paris founded by William of Cha ...

ecclesiastica potestate (1301)—one of the principal sources for the papal bull Unam sanctam (1302) and one of the broadest expre ...

in his native Hainaut. His effigy is still to be seen in the chapel of Saint-Calixte in Mons, and his exploits are recalled annu ...

Meliacin ou Le cheval de fust, ed. Antoinette Saly. Aixen-Provence: CUER MA, 1990. Saly, Antoinette. “La date du Charlemagne de ...

Dante later turned to him for a model of the poet of rectitude. The vida also suggests that Giraut was a master in another sense ...

orders from King William II Rufus. For a century, it was the scene of constant strife until finally ceded by Richard I the Lionh ...

Glossa Ordinaria. Biblical text (large text) and gloss (small text) for Daniel 1.1–4. BN lat. 155, fol. 138. Courtesy of the Bib ...