Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

The regale entitled the king to collect the revenues of (typically) a bishopric after the bishop died, was promoted to cardinal, ...

RÉGNIER, JEAN (ca. 1390–ca. 1467). The author of the Fortunes et adversitez de Jean Régnier was born into an influential family ...

REGULAR CANONS . When applied to a person, the term “canon” generally means a member of a group of priests attached to a larger ...

consisted of a preface, entitled Ordo monasterii, and the body of the Rule, the so-called Praeceptum. Regular canons found suppo ...

although Bishop Nicasius was martyred on the threshold of his cathedral by the Vandals in 406/07. In an effort to win a greater ...

845–882), served as chief counselor to Emperor Charles the Bald. Hincmar’s Vita Remigii, by promoting the primacy of the saint, ...

Reims, Saint-Remi, plan of 11th- century church (above) and present plan (below). After Ravaux and Deneux. tance of Reims in thi ...

similar barometer of architectural change is seen at the parish church of Saint-Jacques, where the late 12th-cen-tury phases of ...

——. Histoire de Reims. Toulouse: Privat, 1983. Kurmann, Peter. La façade de la cathédrale de Reims: architecture et sculpture de ...

Casket-type reliquary. Martyrdom and Burial of Thomas Becket (Limoges, early 13th century). Courtesy of the Allen Memorial Art M ...

Conques, reliquary of Sainte Foy (10th century with later additions). Photograph courtesy of Alinari/Art Resources. The Encyclop ...

Stavelot triptych. True Cross reliquary, Mosan, 12th century. Courtesy of Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Arm reliquary (Mosa ...

Gothic metalwork, Saint-Elizabeth Shrine, Paris. Courtesy of The Cloisters Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The ...

Saint-Étienne, Mosan. Courtesy of The Cloisters Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. of relics was extended when Ch ...

While the stone sarcophagi of saints were heavy and not easily moved, from at least the 7th century on we also find in France sm ...

Paula L.Gerson [See also: ENAMELING; GOTHIC ART; MIGRATIONS ART; PARIS; PILGRIMAGE; POPULAR DEVOTION; ROMANESQUE ART; SAINTS, CU ...

RENART, ROMAN DE . The twenty-six “branches” of the Roman de Renart were composed by some twenty authors of varying talent betwe ...

Rewriting is also present within the Roman de Renart, both in a single branch that exists in multiple versions and between branc ...

RENART LE CONTREFAIT . It was an unnamed priest of Troyes, defrocked for bigamy, who composed this final avatar of the Roman de ...

between the Bel Inconnu and the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Chrétien is concerned with issues of human existence and courtly ...