John Bell Henneman, Jr.
[See also: ADVOCATUS/AVOUÉ; BAN/BANALITÉ; CENS; FORMARIAGE;
GRANGE; MÉTAYER/MÉTAYAGE; NOBILITY; PRECARIA; RURAL SOCIAL
STRUCTURE; SERFDOM/SERVITUDE/SLAVERY]
Cheyette, Frederic L., ed. Lordship and Community in Medieval Europe. New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1968.
Duby, Georges. Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, trans. Cynthia Postan.
London: Arnold, 1968.
Fourquin, Guy. Lordship and Feudalism in the Middle Ages. New York: Pica, 1976.
SEINTE RESURECCION
. A late 12th-century play fragment (522 lines) in the Anglo-Norman dialect, based on the
Gospel narratives of the Resurrection. Its style is more closely related to the historical
realism of the late-medieval Passion plays than to the liturgical and lyrical character of
the near-contemporarary d’Adam. The text is found in two manuscripts, both
fragmentary: B.N. fr. 902 and B.L. Add. 45103.
Alan E.Knight
[See also: JEU D’ADAM; STAGING OF PLAYS; THEATER]
Jenkens, Thomas Atkinson, et al., eds. La seinte Resureccion. Oxford: Blackwell, 1943.
SÉLÉSTAT
(Schlettstadt). An early residence of the Frankish monarchs, Séléstat (Bas-Rhin) is
situated on the left bank of the River 111. In the 13th century, it was granted its charter as
a free imperial city. It preserves its late-medieval town center and two towers of its
fortifications, the Tour des Sorcières and the Tour de l’Horloge (14th c.). The
magnificent triple-naved priory church of Sainte-Foy (12th c.), in red sandstone and
Vosges granite, is one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Alsace. Its decoration
abandons the Rhenish style and Lombard arcading of other Alsatian churches (Murbach,
Guebwiller, Neuwiller) in favor of French foliated capitals. The massive west end
consists of a porch between two square towers decorated with arcades on colonnettes.
The octagonal lantern tower over the transept with arcatures and a stone spire rising to
142 feet is also original. The central nave has early rib vaulting supported on alternating
strong and weak Romanesque columns; the flanking aisles have groin vaulting.
The Gothic church of Saint-George was built from the 13th to the 15th century. An
unusual 13th-century narthex runs the entire length of the façade and opens to the south
with an elegant portal and rose window representing the Ten Commandments. The four
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