Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

then returned to Normandy, where she assisted in the routine business of ducal, and later royal, government. Although English ch ...

——. Quaestiones disputatae de incarnatione et de lapsu aliaeque selectae de Christo et de Eucharistia, ed. PP.Collegii S.Bonaven ...

death of Peter Lombard. He made strenuous attempts to reform his diocesan clergy, and was a friend, adviser, and delegate to Lou ...

687 led to the single mayorality for all of the Frankish kingdoms, held by a Carolingian, which presaged the establishment of th ...

highly specialized functions in the kitchen and hall, such as concocting sauces or carving the master’s meats. By the late Middl ...

was reunited to the French crown in 1285. During the Hundred Years’ War,the city saw the crushing of the Jacquerie in 1358; alth ...

traditions, and a preference for palliative therapy over more aggressive intervention: all these features are personified by the ...

their practice with oral advice rather than with manual intervention, doctors deemed themselves above surgeons, unlike in Italy; ...

MacKinney, Loren. Early Medieval Medicine, with Special Reference to France and Chartres. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Pr ...

sur le corps de la personne. Along with these should be mentioned Jean Sauvage’s Trésor des povrez or Réceptaire de Jean Sauvage ...

ports of Bougie and Ceuta in North Africa, and the Levant. Exports of northern French and Flemish cloth, along with substantial ...

MEHUN-SUR-YÈVRE . The little town of Mehun (Cher) on the Yèvre just north of Bourges, has three medieval monuments: the remnants ...

prominent military commander under kings John II and Charles V. His brother Adam, lord of Château-Landon (d. 1362), was first ch ...

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), Dominican church, section, elevation and isometric. After Duret. Medieval france: an encyclopedia 1152 ...

Dominican church. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. tronage, but the mendicants could be found throughout France. Sever ...

Madeleine at Saint-Maximin. The church, built during the 14th century, had a long nave with double aisles, a po lygonal apse wit ...

extended to disease categories that ranged from lovesickness to rabies and from incubus to epilepsy. The understanding and treat ...

Greeks, Jews. There are few details regarding an indigenous merchant community. Under the Carolingians, the Rhadanite Jews were ...

In art-historical writing, however, the term’s use is commonly both contracted and expanded. It is contracted by restriction to ...

period are liturgical or altar books, however, surviving Merovingian manuscripts are commonly doctrinal works, commentaries on S ...