Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

families A (“short cycle”) and B (“long cycle”) have the most coherent groupings and have been used to prepare the standard edit ...

Guillaume’s life, the Moniage Rainouart (7,600 lines) develops comic situations that arise from the contrast between the hero’s ...

of Orange may derive from memories of Guillaume I the Liberator, count of Provence, who gained an important victory over the Mus ...

Cordova. In a final step, in the 14th or early 15th century, the epic of Girart de Vienne, reworked and amplified with the story ...

divinorum officiorum, which explains liturgical ceremonies for the benefit of both clergy and laity, with special attention to t ...

GUILLAUME LE CLERC (1180/91–after 1238). Among the several poets known by this name in the 13th century, the most important is t ...

William W.Kibler [See also: ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE; BIOGRAPHY; HISTORIOGRAPHY] Meyer, Paul, ed. L’histoire de Guillaume le Maré ...

his epistles are an extended commentary on a canso written ca. 1200 by Guiraut de Calanso and a supplication to Alfonso the Wise ...

H HADEWIJCH (fl. first half of the 13th c.). Only sparse information about Hadewijch’s life is known to us today, although her w ...

HAGIOGRAPHY . Term (from the Greek hagios ‘holy,’ hence ‘saint,’+graphia ‘writings’) referring to the full range of writings abo ...

important the “merits and virtues” common to a single ideal of sanctity rather than the diverse singularities of the lives of hi ...

record of its glorious Christian past that would serve as a comfort and a guide in the more difficult present. His work confirms ...

performed at the shrines of such saints as Benedict of Nursia at the monastery of Saint- Benoît-sur-Loire and Richarius at Saint ...

hagiographic works, all in verse, survive from the late 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries; they concern such diverse subjects as St ...

sanctity whose characteristics included strenuous fasting, ecstatic visions, devotion to the eucharist, and service to the urban ...

personal and moving life of Louis IX and Rutebeuf’s poem about Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231). Hagiographic influence can also b ...

Head, Thomas. Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800–1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ...

HAINAUT . County in the Low Countries, bordering on Flanders. Medieval Hainaut was an agricultural area, centering on the Scheld ...

important noble houses of Normandy and adjacent regions. Jean II, lord of Harcourt (d. 1302), was admiral of France. His oldest ...

David Fallows Hayne van Ghizeghem. Hayne van Ghizeghem: opera omnia, ed. Barton Hudson. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, ...