Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

cure. The Hundred Years’ War impeded traffic on roads, and while pilgrimage remained an important aspect of late-medieval religi ...

Gauthier, Nancy, and Jean-Charles Picard, eds. Topographie chrétienne des cités de la Gaule: des origines au milieu du VIIIe siè ...

The theme of the funeral lament has also been studied in its occurrences in narrative verse, both epic and romance. William D.Pa ...

have promulgated a Neoplatonic cosmology, but what exactly this may mean is a moot point. Orthodox Christian teaching did not al ...

POISSY . The origins of Poissy (Yvelines) lie in the Merovingian period, according to finds in the cemetery, but precise dates a ...

POITIERS . The Roman city of Limonum, later Poitiers (Vienne), became the capital of the area corresponding to the tribal lands ...

original nave (alternating columns and piers) was reduced by the erection of additional supports to carry the curious stone cupo ...

Triumphant Christ with symbols of the four Evangelists, the sun, and the moon. The beautiful arcading, the richly carved radiati ...

POITIERS, BATTLE OF . Poitiers was the site of a major English victory in the Hundred Years’ War (September 19, 1356). In 1355, ...

POITOU . One of the largest counties of France, Poitou played a role of major importance in medieval history. Poitiers, its capi ...

Labande, Edmond-René, ed. Histoire du Poitou, du Limousin et des pays charentais. Toulouse: Privat, 1976. Richard, Alfred. Histo ...

1213 during his struggles with King John Lackland; and Edmund Rich was buried here in 1240. The abbey’s most generous benefactor ...

POPULAR DEVOTION . Until recently, studies of medieval spirituality and devotion have concentrated on the ascetic and mystical w ...

replaced by Chris-tian festivities. In short, existing holy places and times were to become christianized and so remain holy. Th ...

for simplicity of worship and poverty of life, much like other wandering preachers; a few decades later, a rich merchant from Ly ...

An increasingly literate laity made use of a variety of religious books, whose numbers were further multiplied with the introduc ...

French, the powerful hand of God was as clearly visible in the victories of Jeanne d’Arc as it had been, nearly a millennium ear ...

decay. Gold coinage ceased, merchants from the eastern Mediterranean no longer appear in the sources, and cities that were walle ...

labor brought lower rents, higher wages, and a drastic reduction in the number of bondsmen, from about 50 percent to about 10 pe ...

PORTS ET PASSAGES . See CUSTOMS DUTIES POST-VULGATE ROMANCE . The popularity of the Arthurian Vulgate Cycle (ca. 1215–35) is att ...