Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Philip provided minimal support for the government of Henry VI of England and later realigned himself with Charles VII in 1435 ( ...

As head of the regency for the young king Philip Augustus, Philippe d’Alsace arranged for the king to marry his niece, Isabelle ...

PHILIPPE DE THAÜN (fl. late 11th-early 12th c.). Author of the earliest surviving scientific works in French. Philippe’s Anglo-N ...

——. Li cumpoz, ed. Émile Mall. Strasbourg, 1873. ——. Le livre de Sibile by Philippe de Thaon, ed. Hugh Shields. London: Anglo-No ...

PHILIPPE MOUSKÉS (b. ca. 1193). Fourth son of aristocratic parents, Juliane Mouskete and N.Mouskés of Tournai, Philippe Mouskés ...

Tomasello, Andrew. Music and Ritual at Papal Avignon, 1309–1403. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983. PHILOSOPHY . As the Roman ...

King Clotar I’s wife, Radegund, who was establishing a house at Poitiers. Caesaria enjoins Radegund to allow no nun to enter who ...

especially from debates on the relationship of logic and grammar to theology and biblical exegesis, such as that between Berenga ...

A scholastic who practiced the scholastic method but also tried his hand at literary style when writing on mystical topics is Bo ...

William holds the view that genera and species exist ontologically in a real world beyond sense experience; his position can be ...

its way into the writings of nominalist and realist theologians alike. He was more or less rehabilitated by Pierre d’Ailly (1350 ...

attribution to Pierre is not certain. At about the same time, Pierre completed a translation of the Iter Hierosolymitanum, the V ...

Mortet, Victor. “L’expertise de la cathédrale de Chartres en 1316.” Congrès archéologique (Chartres) 67 (1900):309–29. PIERRE DE ...

marked by spatial unity, luminosity, and rich rhythms of tracery forms meticulously organized in depth. In the Virgin Chapel, hi ...

PIERRE DE SAINT-CLOUD (fl. late 12th c.). This skillful and cultured poet brought the adventures of Renart the Fox, known previo ...

Knighted in 1209 by Philip II Augustus, Pierre was secure in his position as ruler of Brittany as long as Philip, with whom he g ...

person seen as able to intercede with God on behalf of humans. The bodies of saints, left on earth to aid the living, could work ...

small; in other towns, like Vézelay, conflict arose between the inhabitants and the abbey over pilgrims’ accommodations. Pilgrim ...

Clermont, Cahors, Agde, and Paris. During this early period, relics were also imported from Rome. In 397, Victor of Rouen brough ...

By the 11th century, the structure at the top of the mountain was inadequate for pilgrims, and construction of the massive hillt ...