Key Figures in Medieval Europe. An Encyclopedia
Cligés also has two parts. The fi rst relates how Alix- andre, the fi rst son of the Emperor of Constantinople, goes to Arthur’s ...
count Limors, readily understandable to French ears as “the Dead.” During the couple’s return, they encounter the adventure know ...
vestment, and, most importantly, mind and mentality that make her exemplary of perfect womanhood. In the aristocratic world of m ...
It was one of her most popular works. As the duke was unwilling to fi nd a place in his household for Christine’s son, Jean du C ...
by other scholars, however, indicate that this chronol- ogy confused the lives of two or three different people of the same name ...
which to hang an artistic career that German scholars in the early twentieth century thought Cimabue to have been a legendary fi ...
after to add luster to the studia in other Italian cities. On 15 August 1330, Robert of Anjou invited Cino to teach civil law at ...
and 1253. After Clare’s death, a milder rule was granted by Pope Urban IV in 1263 and was adopted by the majority of the houses. ...
Perhaps Clement’s most important achievement was the Council of Vienne (1311–1312). It was originally called to consider the cas ...
the Loire, and in 511, at Orléans, he presided over the fi rst great church council of the Frankish kingdom. Clovis was the mast ...
Cnut’s charters survive. Two law codes, one of them substantial and revealing the infl uence of Archbishop Wulfstan, were publis ...
Age. Columbus is in the company of scholastics who, between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, strove to systematize knowled ...
its place in late medieval geoethnography, its central purpose was to describe the mechanics of the natural world and to chart o ...
COMPAGNI, DINO (c. 1246–1324) Dino Compagni was a Florentine merchant, political fi g- ure, and chronicler. He was born into a w ...
to gain the support of the Saxons and the members of the Lotharingian nobility who had not consented to his election. Therefore, ...
Hesse. Eventually he became a Premonstratensian priest. In 1214 he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to press the crusade ag ...
1208/1209 he was elected abbot. His reputation as an ardent reformer and as a rigorous administrator led to his elevation as abb ...
gin (Marienkirche) in Dortmund, he concentrated on the dramatic potential of his now monumental fi gures and the emotional power ...
the imperial title hereditary. He failed in this, but he did manage to have Frederick elected king of the Romans in December 119 ...
both poet and poetry as communal and therefore neces- sarily anonymous. Scholars in the 19th and early 20th centuries favored fo ...
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