Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

occurred in the Rhineland with Meister Eckhart and his disciples Tauler and Suso. Eckhart developed a distinctive mystical way t ...

N NÁJERA . Battle of Hundred Years’ War. Following the ouster of Peter the Cruel from the Castilian throne in 1365 by his French ...

terrible defeat on the Burgundians and Charles met his death. His body was found in an icy pond, half eaten by wolves. After his ...

Foix by Michel Colombe (1499) and has more than a hundred bas-reliefs depicting the story of the Old Testament and parts of the ...

Gui de Nanteuil was composed after Aye d’Avignon, of which it is the continuation, and probably before 1207. One almost complete ...

conquer from the Saracens. The second part reworks an assonanced Siège de Narbonne, of which a fragment has survived. The plot i ...

dispute over jurisdiction ended with a pariage between the king and viscount. Both consulates were placed under the king’s hand ...

NAVAL POWER . The naval and maritime history of medieval France dates from the Roman occupation of Gaul. Roman vessels utilized ...

century. By the early 16th century, gun ports were cut into the hull of a ship so that heavy cannon could be carried lower in th ...

An important early trial for necromancy was that of Bishop Guichard de Troyes, who was alleged to have used such magic to kill Q ...

bring vengeance upon his enemies. She had him baptize a toad and feed it a consecrated host. Then she tore the toad to pieces an ...

lands. In contrast to Austrasia, Neustria was predominantly Gallo-Roman in population, and the form of Latin spoken there, affec ...

bishop of Metz. The oldest part of the structure is the crypt. Two superimposed chapels in the chevet are 11th-century. The flat ...

Nevers, Saint-Étienne, plan, isometric section and long section. After Duret. Nevers (Nièvre), Saint-Étienne, chevet. Photograph ...

Nevers, Saint-Étienne, nave. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. Saint-Étienne is mature Romanesque, contemporary with bo ...

This creative amalgam of architectural forms derived from the pilgrimage churches, Burgundian structures, and the unusual vaulti ...

elegant style. By 1393, he was rector of the University of Paris, a man of learning, with a talent for friendship. He traveled t ...

NIEDERHASLACH . An abbey was founded at Niederhas-lach (Bas-Rhin) in the 6th century by St. Florent and converted to the Benedic ...

Nîmes its greatest degree of civil autonomy and represents the height of its consular regime. In 1226, the knights of the Arena ...

Nelson, Janet L. Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe. London: Hambledon, 1986, pp. 195–237. NOBILITY . One form of nobi ...