Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

J JACOB DE SENLECHES (fl. 1378–95). French composer and harpist, represented in the Chantilly codex by four complex Ars Subtilio ...

JACQUERIE . The Jacquerie, named for the peasants who led it (popularly termed Jacques), was the greatest of latemedieval French ...

JACQUES DE LIÈGE (Jacobus Leodiensis; ca. 1260-after 1330). Author of the Speculum musice and other works on music theory. Littl ...

Jacques’s most significant contribution to the history of the church comprised his collections of sermons intended to serve as m ...

treatise: the Doleance de Megere, written in 1469 by Regnaud Le Queux (whom some argue is the compiler of the Jardin); the Donne ...

witnesses back to Arthur. After three days without food or rest, he angers Brunissen by sleeping in her orchard. The two fall in ...

JEAN IV (ca. 1340–1399). Duke of Brittany. Jean was the son of Jean de Montfort, a claimant for the ducal title in 1341. He spen ...

[See also: AURAY; BRITTANY; CHARLES V THE WISE; CHARLES DE BLOIS; CLISSON; GUÉRANDE; HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR; LANCASTER, DUKES OF; LA ...

JEAN BELETH (fl. 1135–82). Little is known about the life of Jean Beleth. He witnessed a charter in the diocese of Chartres in 1 ...

JEAN DE CHELLES (fl. 13th c.). Jean de Chelles is mentioned by name only in the honorary inscription at the base of the south-tr ...

JEAN DE GARLANDE (Johannes de Garlandia; ca. 1195ca. 1272). Born in England, Jean first studied at Oxford shortly after 1200 and ...

JEAN DE MEUN (Jehan de Meung; 1235/40–1305). Born at Meung-sur-Loire, Jean Chopinel (or Clopinel) obtained the Master of Arts, m ...

including ethics, economics, cosmology, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and the university. The knowledge in the speculum, however, ...

Still more striking is the role the author applies to manipulation and duplicity. Speech serves two purposes: to instruct and to ...

JEAN DESCHAMPS (fl. 13th c.). From the inscription on a memorial, we learn that Jean Deschamps began the cathedral of Clermont-F ...

were influenced by the late 12th-century abbey of Saint-Remi, Reims. At the same time, the introduction of bar tracery in the wi ...

JEAN LE LOUP (fl. early 13th c.). Jean Le Loup served as master mason of Reims cathedral for sixteen years. Several scholars hav ...

Now a political force, Jeanne became a recognized leader of the court faction favoring renewed war over negotiations with the An ...

JEANNE DE CONSTANTINOPLE (ca. 1200–1244). Countess of Flanders and Hainaut. The older daughter and successor of Baudouin IX of F ...

when the county passed to her daughter, the duchess of Burgundy. Philip was extremely close to Eudes IV of Burgundy, who was his ...