Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Earl Jeffrey Richards [See also: JEANNE D’ARC; MENAGIER DE PARIS] Tuetey, Alexandre, ed. Le journal d’un bourgeois de Paris. Par ...

Carcassonne, Toulouse, Rouergue, and Quercy. Although these courts of the viguiers existed from the early 13th century, the titl ...

JUMIÈGES . Founded ca. 654 by St. Filibert, the abbey of Notre-Dame de Jumièges (Seine-Maritime) is today a splendid ruin, its f ...

barrel-vaulted tribune projects one bay between the towers. Within the now roofless nave (which was originally timber and painte ...

of the reign of Charles VI, was bishop of Beauvais (1432–44) and Laon (1444–49) and then archbishop of Reims (1449–73). He heade ...

K KING CYCLE . Charlemagne is at the center of the chansons de geste: many of the surviving epics can be grouped around him and ...

related in the fragment Mainet (late 12th c.), in which Bertha is poisoned by a servant whose daughter resembled Bertha so much ...

in Italy. Jehan, Ganelon’s nephew, has obtained from Charlemagne a duchy in southern Italy but converts to paganism; the ungrate ...

after defeating the implacable traitors. Anseïs de Carthage (ca. 1230–50; four 13th-c. manuscripts and several fragments), a chi ...

Paris, Gaston, ed. “Mainet, fragments d’une chanson de geste du XIIe siècle.” Romania 4(1875):305–37. Speich, Johann Heinrich, e ...

A social gulf nevertheless continued to exist between noble and nonnoble knights in most regions before ca. 1180, when the two s ...

Contamine, Philippe. “Points de vue sur la chevalerie en France a la fin du moyen âge.” Francia 4(1976):255–84. Duby, Georges. T ...

L LA CEPEDE, PIERRE DE (Ceppede, Cypede; fl. first half of the 15th c.). Marseillais author of a prose romance in French (possib ...

LA HIRE (ca. 1390–1443). Étienne de Vignolles, called “La Hire” for his temper, was a constant but undisciplined supporter of Ch ...

La Marche, Olivier de. Parement et triomphe des dames, ed. Julia Kalbfleisch. Rostock: Adler, 1901. ——. Mémoires et opuscules, e ...

La Sale, Antoine de. Œuvres completes d’Antoine de la Sale, ed. Fernand Desonay. 2 vols. Paris: Droz, 1935–41, Vol. 1: La salade ...

weeks, he had completed not only the Mystère de saint Martin, comprising more than 10,000 lines of verse, but also a comic moral ...

reference to texts not normally regarded as lais (the fabliau Auberee appears in one manuscript as the Lais de dame Aubree), and ...

jealous husband who has married a woman of superior rank. Lecheor reduces the whole of knightly aims and activities to the searc ...

LALAING, JACQUES DE (ca. 1420–1453). Born to a noble family still known in Belgium, Lalaing was a model of Burgundian knighthood ...