Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

[See also: DISEASES; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL TEXTS; MENTAL HEALTH] Alebrant (Aldebrandin de Sienne). Le régime du corps, ed. L. Lando ...

HELDRIS DE CORNÜALLE (fl. late 13th c.). Otherwise unknown, Heldris de Cornüalle is the author of the Roman de Silence (6,706 oc ...

Hélinant de Froidmont. Vers de la Mort, ed. E.Walberg. Paris: Droz, 1905. Blum, Claude. La représentation de la mort dans la lit ...

HENRI D’ANDELI (fl. first half of the 13th c.). Henri was probably a native of Andelys (in Normandy) who studied and later wrote ...

Henry’s sister Adèle and the father-in-law of William the Conqueror. Soon afterward, the king died prematurely at Vitry-aux-Loge ...

he named his daughter, Matilda, as his successor. Although Henry’s barons swore to support her in 1127, they became disenchanted ...

settled outstanding problems, submitting conflicting claims in Auvergne to arbitration. After Louis’s death, Henry acted as a di ...

the Parlement de Paris. This recourse, first used immediately after the treaty’s ratification, opened the way for increasing Fre ...

despite his best efforts to win acceptance as the legitimate ruler of the realm and of the duchy. Henry’s premature death of dys ...

could salvage the Lancastrian cause. Restored briefly by Warwick in 1470, Henry was murdered shortly after the death of his son ...

HENRY OF LANGENSTEIN (Henry Heinbuche of Langenstein, Henry of Hesse; 1325–1397). An eclectic theologian, scholar, and mystic in ...

and 1220, and it is likely that they not merely encouraged the use of such cognizances among those who took part in tournaments ...

Plantagenêt. He was a member of the household of Thomas Becket when Becket became archbishop of Canterbury. Herbert shared Becke ...

words), a rhyming dictionary (6,000 words), and, most important, examples of various genres of lyric poetry, such as lai, chant ...

waxed rich, whether the papacy or a successful monastic reform house, became associated with the corruption of filthy lucre. The ...

disappointment, looking toward a later fulfillment of eschatological hopes. In some cases, such as the béguines of Provence, apo ...

elite, while the native population remained either Catholic or pagan. After his conversion to Catholicism in the mid-490s, the F ...

investiture, these same ascetics, their criticism intensified by a sense of betrayal, found themselves outside the bounds of pro ...

rebuffed by a clergy intent on maintaining both its religious monopoly and its secular interests, drive the laity to reject sacr ...

hiding. Nevertheless, Waldensian strongholds, particularly in the Massif Central, survived for centuries, providing a welcome so ...