Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

deliberate, prominent reuse of Merovingian marbles parallels that at Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, Saint-Denis, and, if old accoun ...

Paris, Notre-Dame, façade. Photograph courtesy of Grover A.Zinn. Paris (Notre-Dame), first nave section and present nave section ...

Paris, Notre-Dame, nave. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. 1150s. Designed at prodigious scale, ...

However, flying buttresses were certainly part of the scheme devised by a second builder for the newly enlarged and expanded nav ...

Paris, Notre-Dame, west portals. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. Paris, Saint-Julien-le-Pauvr ...

north side was begun ca. 1246/47 by Jean de Chelles, who also began the south in 1257/58 but was shortly succeeded by Pierre de ...

began to attract students from all over Europe. The intellectual leadership of Paris was sealed with the incorporation of the ma ...

Royalty and bourgeoisie alike hired minstrels on the Rue aus Jogleurs, located off the rue Saint-Martin midway between the churc ...

The fame of the university and its teachers attracted more and more students from afar. The left bank proliferated with privatel ...

added by this wall, Paris now covered 1,084 acres. An integral part of the new wall was the construction of six small fortresses ...

Paris, Saint-Séverin, ambulatory. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. of reform by endowing the Collège de Navarre at th ...

The difficulties imposed by the economic hardships of the Hundred Years’ War in Paris are illustrated by the parish church of Sa ...

Paris, Saint-Eustache, chevet. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. [See also: AIDES; CABOCHIENS; ...

Clark, William W. “The Early Capitals of Notre-Dame at Paris.” In Tribute to Lotte Brand Philip, ed. William W.Clark, Colin Eisl ...

By 1250, the king’s court, which had always moved with him in his travels, became resident at Paris, and a professional body of ...

PARTHENAY . Capital of the Gâtine, Parthenay (Deux-Sèvres) is the site of a castle that dominates a wide bend in the River Thoue ...

husband. Winner of the tournament, for both his prowess and his beauty, Partonopeu is finally married to a forgiving Melior. The ...

today for De corpore et sanguine Domini, the first Latin treatise on eucharistic theology. The work was written (831) for the Sa ...

manuscript (Clermont-Ferrand 189), which also contains the only extant text of the Vie de saint Léger. Thelma S.Fenster Avalle, ...

influence and filiation. The most satisfactory way of grouping French Passion plays is according to a mixture of chronology and ...