Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

buttress. That the nave of Notre-Dame in Paris was the source of this feature is confirmed by the interior el- Mantes (Yvelines) ...

or personal liturgical use were not spared. Thus, though the Jews were avid consumers of books, we are left with only a fragment ...

In the magnificent Mishneh Torah in the Kaufmann collection in Budapest (Budapest, Academy of Sciences, Kaufmann A 77/I–IV), ill ...

Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Keter, 1969. Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle. “The Illustrations of the Kaufma ...

Because of liturgical and devotional requirements, different types of manuscripts had a greater currency during different period ...

in grisaille between 1325 and 1328. In the 15th century, the most famous book of hours is the one produced for John, duke of Ber ...

Ronceray at Angers. He also composed hymns and poems on saints, usually in leonine hexameters. The only prose works to survive a ...

MARCADÉ, EUSTACHE (d. 1440). Author of a mystery play, the Vengeance Nostre Seigneur, and presumed author of the Mystère de la P ...

and capture at Poitiers in September, he had no bourgeois troops but relied solely on nobles. In the last months of 1356, Marcel ...

Bonnassie, Pierre. La Catalogne du milieu du Xe a la fin du XIe siècle: croissance et mutations d’une société. 2 vols. Toulouse: ...

MARGIVAL, NICOLE DE (fl. late 13th or early 14th c.). Author of the Dit de la panthère d’amours, the earliest known French poem ...

Luykx, Theo. De grafelijke bestuursintellingen en het grafelijk patrimonium in Vlaanderen tijdens de regering van Margareta van ...

MARGUERITE OF FLANDERS (ca. 1349–1405). Duchess of Burgundy. Daughter of Louis II de Male, count of Flanders (r. 1346–84), and M ...

considered oath to obey her until the age of thirty quashed. Though Marguerite by no means lacked in courage or ability (e.g., s ...

The Mirouer is a dialogue among allegorical figures who represent the nature of the relation between the soul and God. The funda ...

Huglo, Michel. “Antiphon.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vols. London: Macmillan, 19 ...

The prologues and epilogues that frame each of Marie’s tales refer to the lais performed by Breton storytellers in commemoration ...

with a messenger to explain the events, he has a golden box made, adorned with precious stones. The nightingale’s body is placed ...

Romulus in combination with other traditions: some details bring her collection closer to the Greek fables than to the Latin; ev ...

MARIE D’OIGNIES (1177–1213). Mystic and one of the founding mothers of the béguine movement. Testimonies of her life were record ...