Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

ons. Maine was effectively united with Anjou by the marriage of Foulques V to the heiress of that county. In 1128, his heir, Geo ...

enormous territory, including all of England and most of western France, ruled by one man and sometimes called the “Angevin empi ...

sire to “exterminate that brood of vipers,” the German Hohenstaufen dynasty, which had acquired the Regno in 1194 and had seriou ...

Naples was induced to name Louis as her heir, but her cousin of the Hungarian line Charles of Durazzo seized Naples and reigned ...

January 26, 1477. At the death of her father in September 1488, she became duchess of Brittany, the heiress of a strategic terri ...

aevi. Anonymous 4 is the sole source for almost all our knowledge of historical individuals of the Notre-Dame School because he ...

in 1063 Lanfranc became abbot of Saint-Étienne, Caen (before becoming archbishop of Canterbury in 1070), Anselm succeeded him as ...

is the freedom to do the right thing. By the same token, the freedom to sin turns out to lack a real object—injustice having no ...

biblical text itself. Anselm was responsible for the Glossa ordinaria for the Psalms, for the epistles of Paul, and perhaps for ...

only in the Epistles of John (1 John 2:18, 4:3; 2 John 7), and is thus a relatively late addition to early Christian eschatology ...

of Fiore, by identifying a hidden Antichrist working inside the church, prepared the way for the spiritual movements of the late ...

Courtly Love) is often taken as a rulebook for the favorable treatment of women, devotes the final third of his effort to argume ...

ANTIPHON . Word deriving from the Greek adjective antiphonos, the neuter plural of which became the Latin substantive antiphona ...

de Vogüé, Adalbert. “Le sens d’antifana et la longueur de l’office dans la Regula Magistri.” Revue bénédictine 71(1961):119–24. ...

development on the love between Lavinia and Aeneas. Monologues and dialogues spin out the growing love between the two, and Lavi ...

ANTI-SEMITISM . Anti-Semitism or, more properly for the Middle Ages, anti-Judaism, was the set of attitudes toward Jews that der ...

Nonetheless, actions taken by the royal government, by baronial, ecclesiastical, and municipal authorities, and by vigilantes po ...

Anzy-le-Duc (Saône-et-Loire), priory, chevet. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. masonry, descend. Masonry above and to ...

APANAGE . From apaner, to endow with a means of subsistence, the word apanage, appanage, or appannage is used for a province or ...

Pedro J.Suarez [See also: ALPHONSE OF POITIERS; ANJOU, HOUSES OF; BERRY; BOURBON/BOURBONNAIS; CHARLES THE BOLD; DREUX; ÉVREUX; J ...