Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

HUGH CAPET (ca. 940–996). The son of Hugues le Grand, duke of Francia, Hugh Capet is traditionally considered the founder of the ...

HUGH OF AMIENS (ca. 1080–1164). Born in the area of Ribemont in northern France, Hugh was successively a student at the school o ...

De sacramentis christianae fidei, thus paving the way for the long series of summae that would characterize much of medieval sch ...

——. Hugh of Saint Victor on the Sacraments of the Christian Faith (De sacramentis), trans. Roy J.Deferrari. Cambridge: Mediaeval ...

dispute with its seigneurial neighbors. The principle of Cluny’s immunity from the bishop of Mâcon, first enunciated in the 10th ...

his highest administrative post with his selection as the first Dominican cardinal on May 28, 1244. Hugues played a central role ...

Principe, Walter. The Theology of the Hypostatic Union in the Early Thirteenth Century. 4 vols. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of ...

Louis in 950. Although friction between the two continued until Louis’s death, Hugues supported the succession of Louis’s young ...

HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR . The name posterity has bestowed on the series of Anglo-French conflicts that occurred between 1337 and 1453 ...

coordination and discipline ahead of personal glory or the opportunity for booty. Yet neither the nobility nor heavy cavalry was ...

regional aristocracy became the core of a regularly financed French army at a time when England began to face weak and divided l ...

No treaty ended the Hundred Years’ War, but a new Anglo-Burgundian alliance in the 1470s was thwarted by the erratic but skillfu ...

Hunting developed a kind of ritual. Literary descriptions can be found from saints’ lives to romances, in which hunting sometime ...

Esclamonde three times, and to bring back the emir’s moustache and three of his teeth. Huon overcomes many obstacles thanks to h ...

Busby, Keith. “Plagiarism and Poetry in the Tournoiement Antechrist of Huon de Méry.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 84(1983):505 ...

HYMNS . The hymns sung in France during the Middle Ages have their roots in classical Greek songs (hymnoi) associated with litur ...

deletions. Both early versions were replaced, beginning in the 9th century, by a still more elaborate hymnal, probably originati ...

from the late 14th century, probably composed for the papal court in Avignon, multiple- voice hymn settings begin with the Frenc ...

——. A Mirror of Medieval Culture: St. Peter Hymns of the Middle Ages. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1965. ...

I ICONOGRAPHY OF MUSIC . A subdiscipline of musicology that can be practised in two fundamentally different ways. One can view a ...