Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

of wit, since its performative value lay in the demonstration of an ability to manipulate language and form that, when successfu ...

palace school at Aix-la-Chapelle. From England came Alcuin and Moduin, named respectively “Flaccus” (Horace) and “Naso” (Ovid) a ...

(“Spring comes, girdled even in a garland of flowers. Winter comes, completely covered by frozen, frosted hair. Both were to deb ...

LATIN POETRY, MEROVINGIAN . The term “Merovingian” not only suggests Christian imperial influence from Ravenna but describes a t ...

et super crucis tropaeo dic triumphum nobilem, qualiter redemptor orbis immolatus vicerit.... (“Sing, my tongue, of a glorious b ...

LAURENT D’ORLÉANS (d. ca. 1325). A Dominican friar and confessor of King Philip III, Laurent completed the Somme le roi in 1280 ...

Gui XIV (d. 1486), during whose long reign Charles VII erected Laval into a county. A younger son, André, lord of Lohéac, became ...

customary law became a written law. Along with Roman law came the notary, who as a paralegal agent had a recognized authority to ...

towns used avocats-conseillers to counsel them and to conduct their legal business, many on a permanent basis and others occasio ...

famous ordinance of 1190, providing for the administration of the realm, Philip II Augustus did little more than change successi ...

Louis IX was the first king of France to abolish the judicial duel; the occasion for his action was the trial of Enguerrand de C ...

French law had reached a significant level of growth and sophistication by the early 14th century, largely through the suppressi ...

ORDINAIRE; LEGAL TREATISES; LETTERS OF REMISSION; MONTPELLIER; NOTARIES; PARLEMENT DE PARIS; TREASON] Garward, Claude. “De grace ...

1440), and the Angevin-Provençal Order of the Crescent (1448). The only monarchical orders certainly established in France befor ...

——. “Die Übersetzungen der Disticha des Pseudo-Cato: Der Cato Jean Lefèvre’s,” ed. Jakob Ulrich. Romanische Forschungen 15 (1904 ...

This wall survives in large part and has recently been disengaged along much of its perimeter. In the Middle Ages, Le Mans was a ...

of 1252 by the cathedral chapter to use the quarry at Bernay just west of Le Mans, which had previously served as the principal ...

was the bishopric of Velay. The cathedral dedicated to the Virgin was a major pilgrimage center located on one of the main roads ...

contains a Crucifixion that fills the lunette of the south wall. Although they are by various artists, all the frescoes Le Puy, ...

sources, and the Recueil des histoires de Troie (ca. 1465), based on Boccaccio’s De genealogia deorum. These works reflect the i ...