Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Philip left that in place and his Norman baillis were concerned more with military and judicial matters. In other lands, where t ...

momentum toward extraordinary revenues slowed only briefly. The reign of John II, fifty years later, was critical for the evolut ...

MAGE;JUGE-ORDINAIRE; REQUÊTES, MAÎTRE DES; MISSI DOMINICI; PRÉVÔT/PRÉVÔTÉ; ROYAL DOMAIN; SEIGNEUR/SEIGNEURIE; SENESCHAL; TAILLE; ...

Philip II Augustus inherited a domain that made him at least the equal of such lords as those who ruled Flanders, Burgundy, or N ...

church, probably essentially complete by its dedication in 1236. The abbey figures prominently in narratives about King Louis an ...

married free women, their children then had the free status of their mother. In such fashion, the lowest level of servile status ...

around a castle. Payments for such new customs were often more onerous than any previously paid rents and dues, and the universa ...

[See also: AGRICULTURE; CONVENIENTIA; FAMILY AND GENDER (PEASANTRY); FEUDALISM; GRANGE; POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHY; SERFDOM/SERVI ...

poem Complainte Rutebeuf and in his crusade piece Dit de Pouille (ca. 1265) and whom he eulogizes in 1271. The poet also appeals ...

In his fourteen poems supporting the secular university masters against their Franciscan and Dominican rivals and the pope, Rute ...

or ironic tones of the Dit d’Aristote, the Paix de Rutebeuf, and De Brichemer, the poet reminds his patrons of the virtue of lar ...

S SAINT ALEXIS, VIE DE . Considered a masterpiece among the early saints’ lives, the Alexis tells the story of a young man who v ...

SAINT LÉGER, VIE DE . Leodegard, or Léger in French (ca. 616–678), abbot of Saint-Maixent, then bishop of Autun, was declared a ...

might produce a play about its patron on one or two occasions, the larger towns generally had regular productions that interming ...

quarter of the 12th century on the upper walls and vaults of the axial and south chapels and in the main apse. With its white gr ...

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, abbey church, west tower. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. while the Le Mans group stops in Ro ...

of St. Benedict’s relics on the lintel. This monument attests to the abbey’s religious and intellectual importance during the ce ...

Varille, M., and D.Loisin. L’abbaye de Saint Chef en Dauphiné. Lyon: Masson, 1929. SAINT-DENIS . The abbey church of Saint-Denis ...

Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), nave isometric. After Violet-le-Duc. sept, and a two-level apse with confessio around the buria ...

Saint-Denis, abbey church, west façade. Photograph: Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin College. Saint-Denis, abbey ch ...