Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

The south portal of ca. 1270 features a trumeau statue of the Virgin and Child, Vierge Dorée, and scenes from the life of St. Ho ...

ANAGRAM . A word or phrase formed by transposing the letters of another word or phrase, anagrams appear in French texts from the ...

Vol. 4, Louvain: François Ceuterick, 1912. Vol. 5, Brussels, Société des Bollandistes, Vol. 6, Brussels, Société des Bollandist ...

antifeminism of the final book? Was this true remorse or an ironic stance to avoid ecclesiastical condemnation? The work was tra ...

Andreas de Sancto Victore. Expositio in Ezechielem, ed. Michael A.Signer. CCCM 53E. Turnhout: Brepols, 1991. ——. Expositio super ...

The powerful castle of Angers was begun under Count Foulques III Nerra to protect Anjou from the Normans. After surrender to the ...

the cupolas on the pendentives of Fontevrault, Saint-Maurice is a creative synthesis of Romanesque and Early Gothic characterist ...

screens. The elegance of the ribs is the main characteristic of the Angevin style in the late years of the 12th century. The fou ...

Majesty, surrounded by the four Evangelists, is located in the tympanum. The lintel and trumeau were destroyed in the 18th centu ...

Norman speech habits. A third phase begins with the loss of the continental provinces by King John in 1204. Deprived of their co ...

Gaimar uses both the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s recently completed Historia regum Britanniae as sources. T ...

tensions between the claims of the individual and the demands of society, especially within that most personal and intimate doma ...

form suggests that they were intended, like the chansons de geste, to be recited or sung to a wider audience in the great hall r ...

second, dating from the latter half of the 12th century, is one of four Anglo-Norman hagiographical works written by women withi ...

anonymous Manuel des péchés (ca. 1260) was likewise popular, but the need for a Latin version was apparently not felt. Peter of ...

ANGLURE, OGIERD’ (ca. 1360-after 1412). Ogier VIII, lord of Anglure in Champagne, traveled to Rhodes, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Cypr ...

Angoulême (Charente), Saint-Pierre. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. and attendant angels. The sculpture of the upper ...

it has been part of the department of the Charente. Owing to its small size and its proximity to larger territorial states, it d ...

ANIMALS (DOMESTIC) . Except for the Roman introduction of chickens, domestic animals in medieval France were little different fr ...

acquire Aquitaine by marriage, and establish the Angevin empire of the 12th century. After the king of France conquered the cont ...