Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Fliche, Augustin. La réforme grégorienne et la reconquéte chrétienne (1057–1123). Paris: Bloud and Gay, 1946. La preparazione de ...

1080, when Gregory once again excommunicated Henry and recognized Rudolf. Henry, in 1082, appointed an antipope. In 1084, Robert ...

of the canon law in the Liber extra, or Gregorian Decretals, which were edited by the Dominican Raymond of Peñafort from earlier ...

completes the work with accounts of Gregory’s own times. The overall result is, especially in the later books, frequently confus ...

church of Saint-André (early 12th c.-1236), built originally as the dauphin’s palace chapel, is joined to the Hotel de Ville and ...

evolves in scenes of conflict between St. Louis and powerful enemies—his vassals, the English, and the Saracens—interspersed wit ...

chanson de geste. Grocheio provides more information than any other source about the performance practice of the epic. Cantus ve ...

Étienne, Beauvais. The porch, nave, side aisle, and transept are all late 12th-century; The choir and chevet are 14th-century. A ...

GUERNES DE PONT-SAINTE- MAXENCE (fl. 1170s). An itinerant cleric born north of Paris and known as Guernes composed between 1172 ...

and entered the Cistercian order ca. 1125. He was chosen abbot of Igny in 1138. He is best known for his fifty-four sermons on t ...

conquered Poitou and Saintonge in 1371–72. In 1373, they secured Brittany, whose duke had gone over to the English. For the next ...

Lori Walters [See also: ÉCHECS AMOUREUX; GUILLAUME DE LORRIS; JEAN DE MEUN; ROBERT DE BLOIS; ROSE, ROMAN DE LA] Hult, David F. “ ...

GUILD . Economic association of traders or artisans. No direct continuity between Roman collegia and French medieval guilds can ...

jokes, verses, and stories; some sources style him a reckless, violent, sarcastic infidel who earned his excommunication. Eleven ...

Guilhem IX. The Poetry of William VII, Count of Poitiers, IX Duke of Aquitaine, ed. and trans. Gerald A.Bond. New York: Garland, ...

The place of the Chanson de Guillaume in the development of the epic traditions that make up the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle is imp ...

completed with the death of Desramé, when Guillaume is alone and numerous Christians are still held by the Saracens; in this cas ...

takes his new vassal in charge and instructs him carefully in the art of love. The Lover makes an attempt to approach the Rose b ...

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. Le roman de la Rose, ed. and trans. Armand Strubel. Paris: Livre de Poche, 1992. ——. Le ro ...

GUILLAUME DE SAINT-PAIR (fl. 1150–1190). A monk at Mont-Saint-Michel when Robert de Torigni was abbot there (1154–86), Guillaume ...