Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

revelation had to be admitted as a means of knowledge about God. But it was understood to be partial. Opinion among the theologi ...

PASCHASIUS RADBERTUS; PETER THE CHANTER; PHILOSOPHY; RATRAMNUS OF CORBIE; SCHOLASTICISM] THIBAUT . Name of five counts of Champa ...

Dunbabin, Jean. France in the Making, 843–1180. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. THIBAUT DE CHAMPAGNE (1201–1253). The mos ...

Brahney, Kathleen J., ed. and trans. The Lyrics of Thibaut de Champagne. New York: Garland, 1988. van der Werf, Hendrik, ed. Tro ...

of the schools there in 1121. He went ca. 1124 to teach in Paris, where John of Salisbury was one of his pupils. He continued in ...

Brush, Henry R. “La bataille de trente anglois et de trente bretons.” Modern Philology 9(1911– 12):511–444; 10 (1912–13):36–90. ...

overcharged, are significant less in themselves than through the systems of oppositions into which they fit. Repetitions borderi ...

[See also: BIBLE, CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF; HUGH OF SAINT- VICTOR; PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE; RICHARD OF SAINT- VICTOR] ...

Burgundian chansons by Binchois, Morton, and others. The most prominent French music theorist of his generation, Tinctoris was t ...

TONNERRE . The Gallo-Roman city of Tornodorum was situated among the pleasant farmland and vineyards on the left bank of the Arm ...

The church is composed of an eight-bayed nave flanked by side aisles with chapels between the buttresses, an unusually wide tran ...

Toulouse were implicated in the Cathar heresy, and the city was the scene of much fighting during the Albigensian Crusade (1208– ...

Its treasure includes the relics of 128 saints, among them six Apostles, a piece of the True Cross, and a thorn from the Crown o ...

been destroyed, except for the capitulary, the chapel of St. Antonin, with important murals in italianate style, and two wings o ...

The 12th and 13th centuries marked Tournai’s apogee and saw the construction of its cathedral, as well as the churches of Saint- ...

a career of tournaments, where the victors won the weapons and armor of those they defeated. The original tournaments were fough ...

Tournaments become literary events in these romances, which intriguingly blur the line between history and fiction. Renate Blume ...

Tournus (Saône-et-Loire), Saint- Philibert, narthex. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard. Tournus, Saint-Philibert, aisle ...

The nave abuts a transept that was originally designed to support a wooden roof. The transept arms were barrel-vaulted in the 12 ...

After 1154, Tours became a crossroads of the Plantagenêt empire, where the livre tournois (set at four to the English pound) bec ...