Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

HERISTAL . On the Meuse about six miles northeast of Liège, Heristal (modern Herstal) was one of the residences of the Carolingi ...

Dieudonné, Adolphe E. Hildebert de Lavardin, évêque du Mans, archevêque de Tours (1056– 1133). Paris: Picard, 1898. Scott, A.Bri ...

Queen Tetberga. Hincmar also wrote against Lothair’s appointment of a candidate to the bishopric of Cambrai and generally upheld ...

HISTORIOGRAPHY . Medieval French historical writing can be divided into two periods. In the 6th through 11th centuries, historie ...

Astronomer (after 840), and Ermold Nigel (825–35). The serial biography, the lives of a series of bishops or rulers, was introdu ...

(begun ca. 1101), and Peter Tudebod’s Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere (before 1111), were read and then reworked, particular ...

Nevertheless, the schools of the 12th century, the universities of the 13th, and the friars left their marks on historical writi ...

chroniques were then kept in their own right. But the existence of the vernacular text did not mean the monks stopped writing th ...

the 10th century. It is particularly valuable for the light it sheds on nobility and family in the 11th and 12th centuries. Baud ...

Kervyn de Lettenhove, Joseph M.B.C. Chroniques relatives à l’histoire de la Belgique sous la domination des ducs de Bourgogne. 3 ...

New Testament history after the Passion is dramatized in the Mystère des Actes des Apôtres, attributed to Simon Greban. Comprisi ...

Alan E.Knight [See also: GREBAN, SIMON; LA VIGNE, ANDRÉ DE; MYSTERY PLAYS; PASSION PLAYS; PROCESSIONAL THEATER; SAINT PLAYS; THE ...

HOMAGE . Homage originated in the Frankish custom of the immixtio manuum, by which the king clasped the joined hands of a follow ...

incorporate the melody. Conflicting modern theories make the early history of L’homme armé hard to see clearly. The time is in a ...

HOMOSEXUALITY . The exuberant homosexuality for which the ancient Gauls, like other Celts, were famed seems to have survived or ...

hedonism was part of their cult. The word itself survives to this day in English as “bugger.” In northern France, Chrétien de Tr ...

William A.Percy, Jr. [See also: LATIN LYRIC POETRY] Stehling, Thomas, trans. Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship. N ...

Saint-Esprit in Montpellier, recommended by the pope as a model for all Christendom. By the 15th century, many institutions pass ...

bearing the title (grand) maître de l’hôtel du roi, whose offices were eventually conflated into one. The queen, the king’s elde ...

Reims. Hucbald had access to the major ancient works of learning, notably Martianus Capella, Boethius, and Chalcidius’s commenta ...