Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

MONTMAJOUR . The former Benedictine abbey of Montmajour (Bouches-du-Rhône) originally consisted of two churches, Saint-Pierre an ...

E.Kay Harris Benoît, Fernand. L’abbaye de Montmajour. Paris: Laurens, 1928. Berenguier, R. Abbayes de Provence. Paris: Caisse Na ...

In 1093, the bishop of Poitiers gave the chapel of Notre-Dame to the abbey of Saint- Savin-sur-Gartempe. The crypt of the church ...

joined newcomers from the immediate hinterland. In the period 1250–1350, in conjunction with Aigues-Mortes, the major port for L ...

had become an established pilgrimage center. After the period of Viking invasions, the agreement of Saint-Clairsur-Epte (911) pl ...

Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche), general view. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. Mont-Saint-Michel, nave. Photograph courtes ...

Until the mid-13th century, the abbey alone was fortified. In 1256, with financial help from St. Louis, walls were built to circ ...

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played by others for material gain. Clever farce characters are comic because they are prisoners of their own venality. If trick ...

morality-play protagonist lacks the finely drawn psychological traits of the tragic hero, it is not because medi-eval playwright ...

Karen Gould MOTET (13TH CENTURY) . A musical-poetic genre composed upon a fragment of plainchant. The motet is readily identifie ...

It is generally thought that the vertical coincidence of phrase endings among the parts is stylistically earlier than a staggeri ...

Sanders, Ernest H. “The Medieval Motet.” In Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, ed. Wulf Arlt ...

employed one and commonly displayed it, along with or in place of their cri de guerre, as part of their armorial achievement, us ...

Moulins (Allier), Notre-Dame, plan. After Deshoulières. chapels, which showcase their aristocratic and bourgeois donors and the ...

MOZAC . The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre in Mozac (Puy-de-Dôme), founded in 681 by St. Calminus and his wife, St. Namadie, ...

MURBACH . The Benedictine abbey of Murbach (Haut-Rhin) in the Vosges was founded in 727 by St. Firmin and splendidly endowed by ...

to two basic divisions of quantity, multitude and magnitude. Arithmetica formed the science of multitude per se, while musica wa ...

the process of bringing together cantus and musica in treatises that would form the basis of subsequent musical thought. Many an ...

sions of the musical modes is found in these documents. The earliest extant tonary, found in the Psalter of Charlemagne (B.N. la ...