Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

have been that of priest-judges. The Merovingians became true kings by two means. Childeric I, and perhaps Merovech before him, ...

lacked powerful kinsmen who might have provided support for the queen and her children on such occasions. Generous land grants t ...

——. History of the Franks, trans. Lewis Thorpe. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974. James, Edward. The Franks. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988 ...

sized farms, and large holdings (monastic granges or the demesne land of large estates) all came to be cultivated under métayage ...

monasteries. After the division of the lands of Clotar I among his sons in 561, the region that was soon to be called Austrasia ...

Metz (Moselle), Notre-Dame, south flank. Photograph courtesy of Joan A.Holladay. [See also: AUSTRASIA; BRUNHILDE; MAYOR OF THE P ...

MÉZIÈRES, PHILIPPE DE (1327–1405). Born in Mézières in Picardy, Philippe was a soldier of fortune, then an advocate on the diplo ...

MICHAULT, PIERRE (late 15th c.). A poet attached to the court of Burgundy, Michault composed the Procès d’honneur féminin, a jud ...

MIÉLOT, JEAN (fl. 15th c.). Translator, copyist, illuminator. A native of Gueschard in Picardy, near the residence of the dukes ...

Bossuat, Robert. “Jean Miélot, traducteur de Cicéron.” Bibliothèque de École des Chartes 99(1938):82–124. Delaissé, L.M.J. La mi ...

Bronze openwork disk. 500–600 A.D. Northern France. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of J.P.Morgan, 1917. Courtesy of ...

nique, and the bulk of the material, executed in base metals, was used widely throughout the military class. In contrast, the Po ...

[See also: JEWELRY AND METALWORKING; MEROVINGIAN ART] Haseloff, Günther.“Salin’s Style I.” Medieval Archaeology 18 (1974):1–15. ...

of principalities, especially on the border between the county of Toulouse and the duchy of Aquitaine, but the main purposes of ...

thus providing a buffer of 300 years until the year A.D. 500. The latter interpreted Paul’s reference to an obstacle to the “man ...

at open-air revivalist gatherings in the collective pursuit of God’s peace on earth, may have been the earliest sustained millen ...

Modern historians, limited by the nature of the documentation, tend to emphasize “political” or imperial millennialism in their ...

developments during the Middle Ages. The forces that stimulated technological innovation and the full impact of that innovation ...

1270). Other uses of water power to which French millers significantly contributed include wood sawing (first documented at Évre ...

weapons made of iron came to join traditional weapons as the major product of the iron industry. Bronze, a mixture of copper and ...