Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Abbey of the Trinity at Fécamp (1204). Blessing Christ, in bust. Photograph courtesy of Archives Nationales, Paris. Hugues X, lo ...

Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne, 1243). A walled city. Photograph courtesy of Archives Nationales, Paris. Jeanne the grocer (1315). A w ...

symbolic object that had regulated the oral and ritual system of property transfers and judicial settlements. The medieval seal, ...

however, the term continued to refer to those who possessed a seigneurie, or lordship, generally but by no means always rural in ...

John Bell Henneman, Jr. [See also: ADVOCATUS/AVOUÉ; BAN/BANALITÉ; CENS; FORMARIAGE; GRANGE; MÉTAYER/MÉTAYAGE; NOBILITY; PRECARIA ...

windows in the façade are 13th-century; the vaulting of the nave is 14th-century; and important 15th-century stained glass repre ...

Thibout, Marc. “L’abbaye de Sénanque.” Congrès archéologique (Avignon et Comtat-Venaissin) 121 (1963):365–76. SENESCHAL . The se ...

SENLIS . Senlis (Oise) is best remembered for an event that took place relatively late in its history, the election of Hugh Cape ...

The present cathedral, underway by 1153, owes its inspiration to the chevet of Saint- Denis. Comparison of the details of capita ...

The west façade was planned to have three portals, but only the center one was decorated with figure sculp-ture. The design and ...

SENS . Sens (Yonne) takes its name from the Senones, the Celtic tribe who first settled on the island in the Yonne River, rather ...

Sens, Saint-Étienne, nave aisle. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. Sens, Saint-Étienne, choir from the south. Photogra ...

rebuilt Saint-Étienne, which again was destroyed by fire in 968. The third church, built 968–82, survived until it was torn down ...

[See also: GAUTIER DE VARINFOY; GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE] Bégule, Lucien. La cathédrale de Sens: son architecture, son décor. Lyon: R ...

tradition in different contexts with the same word; they recognized the changes in meaning of the same term used in a different ...

After the victory of Clovis I over Alaric II in 507, Septimania remained in the Visigothic kingdom of Spain as the province of S ...

collections of sequences, for example, date from the second half of the 10th century and were copied in southern France. Althoug ...

particularly by those at the abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, where late in life the poet Adam made his home. The sixty or so lat ...

demands and judicial protections of royal authority. And that question, though never unimportant, became crucial only later, whe ...

Where political factors had led to a situation in which the obligations of serfs were radically mitigated, where they became mer ...