Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

established by poets like Frederi Mistral, and Languedocian, notably as codified by the Institut d’Estudis Occitans in Toulouse. ...

Occitan as being a koine, a supradialectal language of general communication. Although the Occitan koine accepts some traits of ...

to represent the medieval spellings and pronunciations. On the whole, the modern reader with a basic knowledge of the Old Occita ...

OCKEGHEM, JOHANNES (ca. 1420–1497). FrancoFlemish composer, active mainly in France. According to recently discovered documents, ...

The most distinctive features of Ockeghem’s music are its varied, unpredictable rhythms and long-breathed, overlapping phrases. ...

major statement on logic; seven quodlibetals; and treatises on the Body of Christ, on the eucharist, and on predestination. Afte ...

Moody, Ernest A. The Logic of William Ockham. London: Sheed and Ward, 1935. ODILO (961–1049). One of the long-lived abbots of Cl ...

dissolute monks if necessary, and to make sure that future monks followed Cluniac customs. As well as his reforms, Odo is well k ...

apsidal chapels. Notable are the octagonal cupola, ribbed in a stellate pattern, and the rich carving of the sanctuary capitals. ...

Prache, Anne. Saint-Remi de Reims: l’œuvre de Pierre de Celles et sa place dans l’architecture gothique. Geneva: Droz, 1978. Vil ...

ORDERIC VITALIS (d. ca. 1142). A monk of mixed Anglo-Norman parentage, Orderic Vitalis joined the monastery of Saint-Évroult, in ...

Steven F.Kruger [See also: CHARLES V THE WISE; CURRENCY; TRANSLATION] Oresme, Nicole. De proportionibus proportionum and Ad pauc ...

organista. Léonin’s successor Pérotin, called optimus discantor, possibly revised much of the Magnus liber organi, replacing man ...

ORLÉANS . Ancient city situated at the crossing of the Loire closest to the Seine, the place called Cenabum was the chief tradin ...

a 17th- and 18th-century structure; only the churches of Saint-Pierre (12th-13th c.) and Saint-Aignan (15th c.) retain their med ...

OURSCAMP . The Cistercian abbey of Ourscamp (Oise) is one of the largest monastic complexes remaining in northeastern France. Fo ...

OUTREMEUSE, JEAN D’ (1338–1400). Notary and master historian of Liège, Jean has left its story in three distinct versions: a rel ...

12th-century poetical debate, and the De vetula, a pseudo-Ovidian tale. More specifically, it is through complex love metaphors ...

of sacred and secular exegetical traditions. The sources of the poem, aside from the Metamorphoses, are the Bible, biblical comm ...

In this pluralistic system of interpretation, we have the textual attitude of Neoplatonist mythography, where the text is seen a ...