Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE . Biblical books not regarded as inspired, and hence excluded from the sacred canon, appeared in the early ...

APOLLONIUS DE TYR . The legend of Apollonius of Tyre, which involves the incestuous love of a father for his daughter, was immen ...

Benedictines beckoned, and kept him prisoner, fruitlessly, in Roccasecca for fifteen months. In April 1244, he joined the Domini ...

The Roman Catholic church considers his teaching an authentic expression of doctrine, and canon law makes study of his works th ...

vegetation, and its range of agricultural systems, Aquitaine was a composite of different regions. The beginnings of medieval Aq ...

Recovery began with the reestablishment of the duchy of Aquitaine in the mid-10th century, when the dynasty of the counts of Poi ...

line rulers of western France from the Loire to the Pyrénées. Nonetheless, it was precisely at this time that the dukes of Aquit ...

sides. But then the Black Prince assumed command of the English forces in 1355 and won an astounding victory, capturing the Fren ...

Rouche, Michel. L’Aquitaine, des Visigoths aux Arabes 418–781: essai sur le phénomène régional. Paris: Touzot, 1979. Trabut-Cuss ...

“French”-Christian and the “Spanish”-Arabic worlds: trading partners, culturally interdependent, yet often in a state of militar ...

Watt, W.Montgomery. The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972. ARABIC PHILOSOPHY, I ...

the 100,000-volume library that had been assembled by Abu Talib. In the West, however, the victorious Spanish and French largely ...

a high regard for “Saracen” learning and wrote that Christians had gone to Muslim Spain to seek out manuscripts on the liberal a ...

epitome, perhaps by Michael Scot), the Pseudo-Aristotelian De plantis actually by Nicolaus Damascenus (translated by Alfred of S ...

Europe. He taught especially against Averroism and adhered to a curious amalgam of Arabic and Latin Neoplatonism. Although Lull’ ...

rarely. Instead, arbitrators tended to be the prominent and powerful men of the district who were frequently identified simply a ...

Lake, Frederick H., and Harold F.Wright. A Bibliography of Archery. Manchester: Simon Archery Foundation, 1974. Nicolle, David C ...

ARGENTERIE . See HÔTEL DU ROI, ARGENTEUIL . A suburb of Paris on the Seine, Argenteuil (Val d’Oise) was during the Middle Ages t ...

The Praguerie, named in memory of the Hussite revolt, occurred when peers acted to restrain Charles VII, who had been emboldened ...

Scot, at the Sicilian court of Frederick II, in the first third of the 13th century. By 1250, most of the works of natural philo ...