Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

LOGIC . See LIBERAL ARTS LONGPONT . The ruins of the abbey church of Longpont (Aisne) present the most striking example of Ciste ...

Longpont (Aisne), Notre-Dame, nave ruins. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. affirmed at Longpon ...

LORRAINE . A province on the northeastern frontier of the French kingdom, Lorraine takes its name from the state created in 855 ...

In spite of many attempts during the 11th century to reunite the two duchies, they remained separate. Lower Lorraine, in the cou ...

death of the last Angevin claimant, Duke Nicolas, having already taken place in 1473, the house of Vaudémont came to power in th ...

One branch continues the cycle in reverse chronological order by recounting the early exploits of the Lotharingians’ illustrious ...

Lothair revolted in 830, and again in 833 with the help of his brothers Louis the German and Pepin. While their father emerged v ...

Lot, Ferdinand. Les derniers carolingiens: Lothaire, Louis V, Charles de Lorraine (954–991). Paris: Bouillon, 1891. LOUIS, COUNT ...

Vandermaesen, M. “Vlaanderen en Henegouwen onder het Huis van Dampierre, 1244–1384.” In Algemene Geschiedenis der Nederlanden. 2 ...

Pannier, Léopold. “Les joyaux du duc de Guyenne, recherches sur les goûts artistiques et la vie privée du dauphin Louis, fils de ...

Coville, Alfred. Jean Petit: la question du tyrannicide au commencement du XVe siècle. Paris: Picard, 1932. Famiglietti, Richard ...

Under Louis, monastic reform was extended throughout the realm, artistic production surged in volume and quality, and religious ...

Louis VI, then, consolidated his power within his ancestral homeland and made its administration more amenable to the royal will ...

of his third wife, Adèle (his second wife, Constance of Castile, had died in childbirth), the counts of Champagne and their ento ...

LOUIS IX (1214–1270). King of France and saint. The son of Louis VIII, Louis IX came to the throne as a child in 1226. He spent ...

result of his own sinfulness, and translating this conviction into a decision to live up to his notion of the ideal Christian ru ...

monarchy’s financial policies and infringement of traditional rights, Louis issued numerous charters and dispatched reforming of ...

secure the southwest. The birth of a son in 1470 (the future Charles VIII), the death of his brother Charles in 1472, the destru ...

Louviers (Eure), Notre-Dame, south porch. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. sculpture. The late ...

cathedral of Poitiers, the three-story elevation, which includes a dark triforium and capacious tracery windows, adopts the Rayo ...