Moulins (Allier), Notre-Dame, plan.
After Deshoulières.
chapels, which showcase their aristocratic and bourgeois donors and the splendid triptych
ordered by Pierre II and Anne of Beaujeu for the chapel of the Conception and painted by
the Master of Moulins in 1498.
Michael T.Davis
Clément, Joseph. La cathédrale de Moulins: histoire et description. Moulins: Imprimeries Réunies,
1923.
——. “Moulins.” Congrès archéologique (Moulins et Nevers) 80 (1913):3–23.
Guy, André. La cathédrale de Moulins. Moulins: Imprimeries Réunies, 1950.
Kurmann-Schwarz, Brigitte. “Les vitraux de la cathédrale de Moulins.” Congrès archéologique
146(1988):21–49.
Legros, Catherine. “La cathédrale Notre-Dame de Moulins.” Congrès archéologique 146(1988):9–
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MOUVANCE
. Fiefs were often said to “descend” or “move” (Lat. movere) from the person who had
granted them and whose permission consequently was required for any abridgment of the
fief or its service. Since unauthorized alienations could be met with confiscation, the
prudent acquirer of a fief, particularly an ecclesiastic, obtained the approval of the lord in
whose mouvance it was.
From the 13th century, wealthy princes attempted to increase their influence and
prestige by purchasing the mouvance of important fiefs and by establishing mouvance
over allodial lands newly converted into fiefs. When the county of Bar-le-Duc, for
example, which consisted of various allodial and feudal lands, was compelled by Philip
IV in 1301 to become a fief held from the crown, it entered the royal mouvance and
henceforth was known as the Barrois mouvant, to distinguish it from the rest of the
county located in the German empire.
Theodore Evergates
[See also: ABRÈGEMENT DU FIEF]
Fourquin, Guy. Lordship and Feudalism in the Middle Ages, trans. Iris and A.L.Lytton Sells. New
York: Pica, 1976.
Ganshof, François L. Feudalism, trans. Philip Grierson. New York: Harper, 1961.
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