Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

IDYLLIC ROMANCE . The idyllic romance (roman idyllique) describes the juvenile love of its hero and heroine, whose emotional uni ...

de Créquy produced a prose version of the tale. Robert de Blois’s Floris et Lyriopé (ca. 1250) has the ill-starred Narcissus as ...

[See also: JEHAN BONNET: MATFRE ERMENGAUD; SIDRAC, ROMAN DE] Langlois, Charles-Victor. La vie en France au moyen âge, du XIIe au ...

reduced the Jubilee interval to thirtythree years; Paul II, in 1470, reduced it to twenty- five, which is the modern interval. A ...

the “vicar of Christ,” which became a key papalist term, replacing an older emphasis on the Roman pontiff as vicar of Peter. Inn ...

Innocent’s numerous decretals became important parts of the first official collection of canon law, the Gregorian decretals (123 ...

Laurent, M.-H. Beatus Innocentius V(Petrus de Tarantasio OP) studia et documenta. Roma: Sabinae, 1943. INNS/INNKEEPING . See TRA ...

Reims, ordering an archiepiscopal inquest into reported heresy in Flanders. The next year, at the Council of Tours, Alexander in ...

Lea, Henry Charles. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. 3 vols. New York: Harper, 1887. ——. The Inquisition of the ...

IRMINON, POLYPTICH OF . The “polyptich,” a multileaved document used from late Roman times through the 14th century, inventoried ...

France ca. 1130 and may have embraced the Cistercian life shortly after 1140, perhaps at Pontigny. Isaac was a strong supporter ...

1403, when a group of royal ordinances attempted to achieve a balance of power among the royal relatives. In 1405, Isabeau’s cou ...

dubious reliability, Jean d’Outremeuse, alleged that Isabella was the one who told her father about the adultery of her sisters- ...

Egidius de Pusieux; 1342), or even 18:12:10:5:9:10 (Salve virgo/Vita via by Billart; ca. 1400). Strict isorhythmic taleae appear ...

ISSOIRE . The former abbey church of Issoire (Puy-de-Dôme), dedicated to St. Austremoine, first bishop of the Auvergne, is the l ...

[See also: SAINT-NECTAIRE] Craplet, Bernard. Auvergne romane. La Pierre-qui-vire: Zodiaque, 1962. Ranguet, H. and E.du. “Abbatia ...

regularizing of clerical life through the reform of cathedral chapters and the establishment of houses of regular canons. His co ...

Ivory: Crozier, 12th century, Florence, Bargello. Photograph by Alinari/ Art Resources. From the Carolingian period, ivories tha ...

and croziers. Statues of the Virgin and Child usually depicted the crowned Virgin, either standing or seated, holding a playful ...

Gaborit-Chopin, Danielle. Ivoires du moyen âge. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1972. Grodecki, Louis. Ivoires français. Paris: Larou ...