Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Conant, Kenneth John. Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800–1200. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978, pp. 43–46. Durand ...

Although wall painting in the transepts and choir is fragmentary, extensive paintings survive in the west gallery, the nave, the ...

around incomplete sections in the east end. In addition to figural work, medallions and ornament cover one of the western transv ...

SAINT-SULPICE-DE-FAVIÈRES . saint-sulpice (Essonne) is a pilgrimage church located in a small village south of Paris. Large in r ...

and Bishop Hugues d’Arcy of Autun. A 14th-century altarpiece within is dedicated to the life of St. Thibault. William W.Kibler/W ...

In the 12th century, the abbey school attracted students from all of Europe and was for several decades open to students from ou ...

standing Virgin and Child (14th c.), the vault boss depicts a king with what may be Wisdom and Folly, and over the cloister entr ...

[See also: SAINTS’ LIVES] Hoepffner, Ernest, and Prosper Alfaric, eds. and trans. La chanson de sainte Foy. Paris: Les Belles Le ...

Crozet, René. “Saint-Eutrope de Saintes,” “L’abbaye-aux-Dames de Saintes,” and “Ancienne cathédrale Saint-Pierre à Saintes.” Con ...

church was built in the latter half of the 12th century. Its official name, Notre-Dame-de- la-Mer, was soon transformed by pilgr ...

feast that commemorated the day of that saint’s death, that is, the day on which he or she had been born into eternal life. Such ...

Little is known about the veneration of saints’ relics in Gaul prior to the last decade of the 4th century, when it underwent a ...

The reforms instituted by Carolingian rulers and bishops at synods like those held at Frankfurt (994) and Mainz (813) did much t ...

monastic communities sometimes performed a ritual humiliation of that saint’s relics, in which the relics were taken out of thei ...

church ornamentation also celebrated the cult of saints, as hagiographic legends were prominently displayed in stained-glass win ...

on faith. John Calvin composed a systematic critique of the cult of relics in the vernacular (Traité des reliques, 1547), in whi ...

Eulalie, dates to 878–82. Another early work, the Vie de saint Léger, is from the 10th century. The main source for the French s ...

The spiritual or ideological content, clearly visible in the formal aspects of the French saints’ lives, is shared with all Chri ...

eternal felicity. Furthermore, the saints were believed to perform valuable aid in times of danger or distress, such as childbir ...

Germanic of such written law on the Continent, displaying virtually no evidence of a Christian or a Roman influence. The society ...