Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

MINTS . The control of mints was in theory a royal prerogative in medieval France, but the early- medieval kings gradually lost ...

or episodes from the life of a saint during which miraculous events occur. Plays called miracles were especially popular in Fran ...

Each year for much of the 14th century, the Parisian Goldsmiths saw a dramatization of one of the most popular tales of their ti ...

MISSI DOMINICI . The Carolingian system of royal messengers, generally referred to by the Latin term missi dominici, developed u ...

the south portal and with the late 11th-century cloister, one of the oldest and most complete Romanesque cloisters in France. Al ...

infancy of Christ (east wall)—was presumably added during the abbacy of Roger (1115– 31), whose statue flanks the central porch. ...

Moissac, Saint-Pierre, cloister. Photograph courtesy of Rebecca A.Baltzer. Other notable features include a lapidary museum; a 1 ...

we view now simply as convention, for them was necessary commensurability. Even the individual letters of the language had signi ...

The origin of the monastic customaries coincides with the activity of Carolingian reformers, led by Benedict of Aniane (d. 821), ...

foundation of Lérins, in Provence, followed a rule that went back to Cassian. Luxeuil, founded at the end of the 6th century by ...

Starting in the final years of the 8th century, however, a number of ruined or deserted monasteries were refounded or reformed, ...

In the second half of the 9th century, there again began to be new monastic foundations in France, for the first time in some 15 ...

concrete in prayers and Masses that the monks performed or in lists of lay friends in a book of commemoration. Laypeople were fr ...

French forests for the first time since the Merovingian period. Secular canons, small groups of priests who had collectively ser ...

Cistercians by the middle of the 12th century rapidly spread to include hundreds of houses across Europe. The monks’ agricultura ...

——. Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980–1198. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Constable ...

If the Moniage satirizes monastic life, it also cultivates the ideal relationship, asserted by Thomas Cabham, between gesta prin ...

Chambre des Comptes for a short time. By 1415, he was a councillor of the king and the duke of Guyenne. He was killed at Agincou ...

fief from the archbishopric of Sens by the counts of Champagne. Through the marriage of their heiress to Philip IV of France, Mo ...

MONTIER-EN-DER . Site of a Benedictine abbey (montier) founded by St. Berchaire in 672 on the banks of the Voire, Montier (Haute ...