Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Jeanne bore Philip four sons and a daughter before dying on April 2, 1305. In her lavish testament, she used 40,000 livres paris ...

Gautier le Leu’s, Jehan’s fabliaux evince acute observation and a rich experience of the life of Picard peasants and merchants. ...

classification of the three principal poetic genres), Jehan Bodel tackled most contemporary forms and achieved creativity in eac ...

Jongleurs et des Bourgeois d’Arras. He is sole author of seven lyrics but is known primarily for his jeux-partis, of which he co ...

of Cologne, using Aristotelian concepts and methods of exposition and proof. By not writing on plainchant and by not using the t ...

references. It is one of the most frequently edited, translated, studied, and performed plays from medieval Europe. Lynette R.Mu ...

consists of the weapons and objects of personal adornment that have been found in large numbers accompanying aristocratic burial ...

and that distinctions were made between those who worked with various percentages of precious metals. Didier J.Course [See also: ...

originated in Charles’s gratitude for their support. Jews, however, came under increasing pressure in the 12th and 13th centurie ...

JOHANNES DE GARLANDIA (fl. ca. 1240). An influential music theorist associated with the University of Paris, Johannes is the aut ...

of John’s political behavior, especially in the years following the assassination of his nephew Louis of Orléans in 1407, show h ...

Longnon, Jean, and Raymond Cazelles. The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: Braziller, 1969. Meiss, Millard. F ...

JOHN II THE GOOD (1319–1364). King of France, 1350–64. The elder son of Philip VI and Jeanne of Burgundy, John became heir to th ...

complicated when the king’s son Louis, a hostage for his father’s ransom, broke parole and fled. John returned to captivity in E ...

John of Salisbury. Memoirs of the Papal Court, ed. and trans. Marjorie Chibnall. London: Nelson, 1956. ——. The Metalogicon of Jo ...

Mirot, Léon. “Jean sans Peur de 1398 a 1405 d’après les comptes de sa chambre aux deniers.” Annuaire-Bulletin de la Société de l ...

JONAS OF ORUÉANS (before 780-ca. 843). Frankish theologian. Born in Aquitaine, Jonas became bishop of Orléans in 818, after its ...

The 13th century has been labeled the golden age of the jongleur, when he was both respected and admired. Handsome rewards accru ...

JOUARRE . The ancient city of Dividorum, in Brie near present-day Meaux, was the site of a prestigious Benedictine abbey for wom ...

JOUFROI DE POITIERS . An anonymous mid-13th-century romance of some 4,600 rhymed octosyllabic couplets, Joufroi recounts the amo ...