Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Verelst, Philippe, ed. Renaut de Montauban: deuxième fragment rimé du manuscrit de Londres, British Library, Royal 16 G II (“B”) ...

Renouard, Yves. “Les Cahorsins, hommes d’affaires français du XIIIe siècle.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th se ...

nearly always that of the demanding or conniving wife. Material and financial concerns—the need to furnish a new household, to k ...

R RABANUS MAURUS (Hrabanus, Rhabanus, also known as Magnentius; ca. 780–856). Born in Mainz of a noble family, Rabanus (which me ...

——. Liber de laudibus sanctae crucis. In Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Original-format des Codex Vindobonensis 652 der Öster ...

Cherewatuk, Karen. “Radegund and Epistolary Tradition.” In Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre, ed. Karen Chere ...

Brugnolo, Furio. Plurilinguismo e lirica médiévale da Raimbaut de Vaqueiras a Dante. Rome: Bulzoni, 1983. Rostaing, Charles, and ...

possessions. Long after his trial and execution, Gilles de Rais was associated in Breton oral tradition with the story of Bluebe ...

relative size of the three zones of the elevation, the master builder distinguishes the parish church from the cathedral. The ch ...

keep fighting. In these instances (for example, the Battle of Agincourt in 1415), the military leader would command the killing ...

Kay, Sarah, ed. and trans. Raoul de Cambrai. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992. Meyer, Paul, and Auguste Longnon, eds. Raoul de Cambrai, c ...

Grand (d. 1102), brother of Philip I of France. He became count of Verman-dois in 1117, answered the royal summons to oppose an ...

Often criticized for inaccuracy, gossip, disorganization, and prodigy mongering by modern political historians, Raoul has proven ...

Bouhot, Jean-Paul. Ratramne de Corbie: histoire littéraire et controverses doctrinales. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1976. Delh ...

Pierrepont. With an original turn of mind and a malicious sense of humor, the author hides behind his persona the better to impo ...

The Roman du castelain de Coucy et de la dame de Fayel by Jakemés (second half of the 13th c.) has as hero the trouvère of the p ...

[See also: BEAUMANOIR, PHILLIPE DE REMI, SIRE DE; COMTE DE POITIERS, ROMAN DU; COUCY, CHÂTELAIN DE; JEHAN DE PARIS, ROMAN DE; JO ...

are forced into rebellion or civil war. Although selfish, vindictive barons are criticized as much as the king, the author takes ...

Roberta L.Krueger [See also: ÉTIENNE DE FOUGÈRES; HÉLINANT DE FROIDMONT; LI MUISIS, GILLES] Van Hamel, Anton Gerardus, ed. “Li r ...

repertory and were not always connected to the dance. Besides narratives with lyrical insertions, refrains also appear in chan-s ...