Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

the lovers by a quarrel between their fathers, a detail that probably underlies the Romeo and Juliet story. Narcisse, just over ...

P PALEOGRAPHY AND MANUSCRIPTS . Before the invention of the printing press and movable type in the 15th century, books were hand ...

Luxeuil minuscule. Yale MS 481, 2v. Courtesy of Beinecke Library, Yale University. Carolingian minuscule, ca. 873. Yale MS 413, ...

Late Carolingian minuscule, early 12th century. Yale MS 414, fol. 1. Courtesy of Beinecke Library, Yale University. Medieval fra ...

Latin translation of Aristotle for the university student in Paris, third quarter of the 13th century. Yale Medical Historical, ...

when compared with Luxeuil minuscule: Carolingian letterforms, well proportioned and uniformly written, sit firmly on the text l ...

Pecia manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas with scribe’s note, Paris, ca. 1270. Yale MS 207, fol. 46. Courtesy of Beinecke Library, ...

theology at the University of Paris. Aquinas’s commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences was composed ca. 1254–56 but was probably ...

The scribe blamed the stationer for the sloppy appearance of the erasure and superimposed corrections. In 13th-century Paris, th ...

Caesar’s Commentaries, French translation by Jean de Chesne, Bruges, 1476. Yale MS 226, fol. 67. Courtesy of Beinecke Library, Y ...

centuries. The spiky style of Gothic script seen here is characterized by decorative shading of such letters as the tall s and l ...

to reconstitute strict feudal obligations between Simon and his vassals; to apply to all persons the testamentary practices of t ...

Paray-le-Monial (Saône- et-Loire), Notre-Dame, nave. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. The interior spaces of the two m ...

Paray-le-Monial, Notre-Dame, ambulatory. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. the upper wall, separating the forechoir fro ...

PARENS SCIENTIARUM . This papal bull, issued in 1231 by Gregory IX, was a major step in establishing the independence of the cor ...

bishop of Urgel to end their longstanding dispute; today, their successors, the president of France and the bishop of Urgel, sha ...

Paris (Seine), plan of early medieval sites. After Périn et al. present cathedral, and Notre-Dame under the chevet of the presen ...

church we have no trace, nor were any tombs of the royal family positively identified among the many investigated during the des ...

in the vicinity of Paris and chose not to reside in Paris for long periods. Influential monasteries and the area’s commercial im ...

donations from Louis VI, such as the foundation in 1112 of Saint-Victor with William of Champeaux, one of the great teachers of ...