Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

saint Graal. A noncyclic and highly elaborated version of the Perceval story is found in the early 13th-century Perlesvaus, a ta ...

unification of the story of Tristan and his ancestors with that of King Arthur, the Grail quest, and the loss of Arthur’s and Tr ...

PROSTITUTION . Prostitution was not an important social phenomenon in France until the urban revival of the high Middle Ages, wh ...

[See also: SEQUENCE (EARLY); TROPES, ORDINARY; TROPES, PROPER] Marcusson, Olof, ed. Corpus troporum II: Tropes de l’alleluia. St ...

particularly Marseille and Arles, became among the most vibrant and wealthy commercial centers in the West. Although technically ...

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PROVERB . Although nearly impossible to define, proverbs—statements of a universal nature borrowed from philosophers, the father ...

PROVINS . Founded during the Merovingian period around a Benedictine priory, Provins (Seine-et- Marne) became one of the leading ...

of St. Paul in Athens. Modern scholarship has concluded that the works were not written in the 1st century but rather ca. 500, p ...

——. The Complete Works, trans. Colm Luibheid with notes and collaboration by Paul Rorem. New York: Paulist, 1987. ——. The Divine ...

against King Aigolan-dus, Altumaior of Cordova and Furre of Navarre, the giant Ferracutus, and Ebrahim of Seville. Having reaffi ...

PUCELLE, JEAN (d. 1334). An artist documented as producing the seal of the confraternity of Saint- Jacques-aux-Pèlerins in Paris ...

Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [See also: MANUSCRIPTS, PRODUCTION AND ILLUMINATION] The Hours of Jeanne d’Évr ...

waiting for admission to Heaven. By the time of Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604), it was clearly defined that Heaven as a place f ...

Le Goff, Jacques. The Birth of Purgatory, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Turner, Victor, ...

Breuil, Auguste. “La Confrérie de Notre-Dame du Puy d’Amiens.” Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie 2nd ser. 3 (18 ...

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Q QUAESTIO . See SCHOLASTICISM QUARREL OF THE BELLE DAME SANS MERCI . Nothing attests so accurately to the continuing popularity ...

Charity Cannon Willard [See also: AUVERGNE, MARTIAL D’; CHARTIER, ALAIN; HERENC, BAUDET; LE FRANC, MARTIN] Chartier, Alain. La b ...

once, although there is a final echo in some sermons on Penitence preached by Gerson the following December. An examination of t ...