Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Farmer, Sharon. Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Leseur ...

Carcassonne established by his brother Louis IX. By the 14th century, Paris attained a population of perhaps 200,000; Bordeaux, ...

Aigues-Mortes, and Marseille, facilitated trade with the western and eastern basins of the Mediterranean. The Champagne fairs we ...

numbering in the thousands, included not only those belonging to the monks but many others tended under contract. The transhuman ...

composed in verse by Simon de Freine ca. 1180. From the early 13th century to the late 15th, at least thirteen versions of the C ...

The history of Ovid translations is also complicated, because the Ovidian tradition was deeply enmeshed in vernacular literature ...

Although Virgil and Terence were standard curricular authors, their works were not translated into French until the 15th century ...

Translations of several minor historical and tactical writings may be mentioned here. Vasque de Lucène translated in 1468 Quintu ...

translated in the 13th century by an anonymous author (two manuscripts) and again in the late 14th century by Jacques de Bauchan ...

PREMIERFAIT, LAURENT DE; PRESLES, RAOUL DE; RENAUT DE LOUENS; SAINT-GELAYS, OCTAVIEN DE; VIES DES ANCIENS PERES; VIGNAY, JEAN DE ...

became a pious work on the grounds that it saved lives in times of flood, and the enthusiasm for construction meant that by the ...

couriers, particularly in northern France. Even in the case of mixed companies of horsemen and pedestrians, travelers could main ...

obedience, and just war. Before the 13th century, loyalty to the king was often conditional and formal defiance possible; custom ...

the crusade to Nicopolis. Gui VI made his family’s fortune by marrying Marie de Sully, heiress not only to the lordship of Sully ...

Cheyette, Frederic L. “The ‘Sale’ of Carcassonne to the Counts of Barcelona (1067–1070) and the Rise of the Trencavels.” Speculu ...

TRISTAN DE NANTEUIL . The last chanson de geste in the Nanteuil Cycle. Dating to the mid-14th century, Tristan de Nanteuil is fo ...

to that of Arthur and his earliest companions (see, e.g., the Welsh Triads, where Tristan is also the lover of Essylt, King Marc ...

Walter, Philippe, and David Lacroix, eds. and trans. Tristan et Iseut: les poèmes français, la saga norroise. Paris: Livre de Po ...

men), although far more important than such a comparison would suggest for our understanding of medieval poetry and life. Most o ...

TROPES, ORDINARY . Texted compositions written to supplement Ordinary chants for the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei). A ...