Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

LUPUS OF FERRIÈRES (Servatus Lupus; ca. 805–862). A leading literary figure of the Carolingian renaissance. Born into a family w ...

In France, the third brother, Hugues IX, had become count of La Marche and sought to join it to Angoulême by betrothing his son ...

and the next year made him king of Bohemia. Among Jean’s children were the emperor Charles IV (r. 1347–78) and a daughter, Bonne ...

decoration of Cluniac Romanesque churches in Burgundy and monuments in Vienne. By the end of the 12th century, the vaults of the ...

M MACHAUT, GUILLAUME DE (ca. 1300–1377). The greatest French poet and composer of the 14th century. Machaut’s narrative dits set ...

two miscellaneous lyrics. The manuscripts also include music for his famous Messe de Nostre Dame and a textless three-voice hock ...

island, where he encounters a friendly lion; the lion leads him through a wasteland into a grove, where they are received by a n ...

1350s. Formally, the motets use isorhythmic designs based on chant tenors and are evenly divided among bipartite designs with di ...

——. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, ed. Friedrich Ludwig. 4 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1926–54. ——. Polyphon ...

Timaeus, from his commentary on it, and from Macrobius’s commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, Apuleius’s Golden Ass, and Boethiu ...

vulgat.) Marbode admitted that herbs have great power, but the virtues of gems are greater. Some people may question their power ...

Natural magic works with materials rare in Europe but common in and around India. Some substances, however, are presumably avail ...

Nicole Oresme’s writings on magic illustrate one possible stance that a late-medieval philosopher and scientist might adopt. Ore ...

[See also: MARBODE OF RENNES; NECROMANCY; ORESME, NICOLE; WILLIAM OF AUVERGNE; WITCHCRAFT] Marcellus. De medicamentis liber, ed. ...

erat, and (3) at the conclusion of the canticle. The practice could be further amplified by repeating the antiphon or a portion ...

important medieval Aristotelians. The later Latin scholastics called him Rabbi Moyses instead of the quidam (“a certain person”) ...

Bacher, Wilhelm, Marcus Brann, David Simonsen, and Jacob Guttman, eds. Moses ben Maimon: Sein Leben, seine Werke und sein Einflu ...

translations into Latin, English, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Irish. Of the three distinct versions, the ...

this early period of his career, Manegold produced commentaries on the Psalms and Matthew. By ca. 1082, he had entered the conve ...

three generations and several servants, there are also occasional indications that brothers may have held manses in common for s ...