Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

relates to the staging of mystery plays, with little information existing on the staging of farces and sotties. The commonest me ...

In contrast to the stage and decor, we know little about the costumes used in the plays. Because they were normally provided by ...

STAINED GLASS . Suger, the mid-12th-century abbot of Saint-Denis, described the new ambulatory of his church as shining “with th ...

splendent gloom interpreted to reveal the Divine Presence. This association of God with light, critical to the understanding of ...

when made of pot-metal glass. Once the painting was fired, pieces of glass were joined to one another by flexible lead cames, H- ...

Chartres, Notre-Dame, north transept windows. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. stained glass was firmly entrenched as ...

west façade windows at Chartres, or on emblematic discourse, such as the Allegories of St. Paul window at Saint-Denis and the ty ...

Paris (Seine), Sainte-Chapelle, upper chapel. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. transcribe regulations governing the pr ...

Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, St. Vincent. Courtesy of the Walters An Gallery, Baltimore. round-headed lancet openings of the l ...

window (1220–25) in the ambulatory of Chartres departed from this model by returning to an orthogonal arrangement of its armatur ...

abbey church of Saint-Ouen (1318–39) in Rouen is among the most arresting programs of the period. Its historiated panels, framed ...

Raguin,Virginia. Stained Glass in Thirteenth-Century Burgundy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Williams, Jane Welch ...

monastery of Cîteaux and thus set in motion the reform movement that produced the Cistercian order. Harding was subprior and pri ...

and suspended him as archbishop for two years. The dispute was eventually settled by the deaths of John and Innocent, and Stephe ...

d’Anjou. He returned to England to quell a baronial rebellion, leaving the situation in Normandy unsettled. Stephen continued to ...

the north aisle, and scenes from the lives of the Virgin and Christ in the south aisle. The main addition to the nave was the mi ...

STRASBOURG, OATHS OF . The earliest written evidence of French or of any Romance language, as recorded by the chronicler Nithard ...

properly belonged to the bishops. The cardinals, and others who found the existing system beneficial, naturally opposed the Gall ...

SUGER (1081–1151). Abbot of Saint-Denis from 1122 to 1151, Suger is one of the most interesting representatives of French monast ...

aristocracy in the Paris region, his own role in this process, and the king’s special devotion to St. Denis. He also wrote two w ...