Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Albi (Tarn), Sainte-Cécile, nave. Photograph courtesy of Alinari/Art Resources. The cathedral of Sainte-Cécile at Albi stands as ...

add definition to the bays. The main vaults are supported by the smaller vaults of the chapels, as well as by external buttresse ...

Heretical movements appeared in southern France as early as 1120, but an identifiable Catharism cannot be detected until the 114 ...

Albigensian Crusade by restoring the Toulousan count (Raymond VII, by this time) to at least part of his lands and by establishi ...

Arnaud-Amanieu’s son, Charles I (d. 1415), grew up at the French court as a “companion” to the dauphin (Charles VI) and was name ...

Wallach, Luitpold. Alcuin and Charlemagne: Studies in Carolingian History and Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1959 ...

Henry for the murder of Thomas Becket. (Alexander had advised Thomas against challenging the Plantagenêt monarch, one of his all ...

With William of Auvergne, Alexander (known as Doctor irrefragibilis), was the first Paris master to use Aristotle in the service ...

encyclopedic learning by defining long lists of words and thus describing everyday objects (saddles, clothing, beds), technology ...

Albéric (enfances) Br. I, first half 1,656 Alex. linked to I, middle 1,009 the Fuerre de GadresI, last quarter 619 the Fuerre de ...

Notes to Branch IV, ed. Bateman Edwards and Alfred Foulet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Gui de Cambrai. Le venge ...

la femme, and the Débat du mondain et du religieux, present cynical views of love. He is often compared with Villon, as some of ...

Different in Aliscans is the early announcement, before Rainouart has proved himself, that he will wed Aelis. Joan B.Williamson ...

encouragement of the count of Toulouse. The rebellion failed, but it pointed up the precariousness of Capetian rule in the south ...

ALTA CAPELLA . A standard grouping of musical instruments in the late Middle Ages. The alta capella was employed by 15th-century ...

AMADAS ET YDOINE . The original version of this anonymous Anglo-Norman romance was written between 1190 and 1220, perhaps earlie ...

attacked by the deposed bishop Agobard of Lyon, to whose place Amalarius had been appointed. Because of Agobard’s influence, Ama ...

Autpertus’s commentary on the Apocalypse, an ecclesiological interpretation synthesized from Primasius, Tyconius, Augustine, Vic ...

absolute dichotomy between the good (Ami, Amile, Belissant, Gérard, faithful servants) and the evil (Hardré and Lubias). All the ...

Amiens (Somme), Notre-Dame, plan. After Addis and Murray. Amiens, Notre-Dame, nave. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. ...