Key Figures in Medieval Europe. An Encyclopedia
intended to settle the confl ict between the two countries. The marriage contract laid down that Portugal would be ruled by the ...
viding a mythical-historical background for the ruling House of Hapsburg. Duke Leopold of Austria and the heathen king Agrant of ...
life, vaunting, instead, his own power and arbitrariness. Only in chapter 33 is the argument silenced when God is called on to d ...
England. At a moment when neither side could be sure of winning, an attempt at a nego tiated peace produced Magna Carta (June 12 ...
under the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360, John had to contend with the violence of thousands of unem- ployed soldiers. ...
best-known text on astrology from classical antiquity, Ptolemy’s Quadripartitum. John appears to have ventured also into the fi ...
1389 to Jeanne de Boulogne. He died in Paris on June 15, 1416, leaving no male heirs. One of the greatest patrons in the history ...
Perret, Michèle. ‘“À la fi n de sa vie ne fuz-je mie’: Joinville’s Vie de Saint-Louis.” Revue des sciences humaines 183 (1981): ...
Crónic abreviada, written during the tutelage of Al- fonso XI (around 1320), was thought lost until Sánchez Alonso found it in 1 ...
Giménez Soler, A. Don Juan Manuel. Biografi a y estudio critico. Zaragoza, 1932. Juan Manuel, Obras Compietas. Ed., prologue, an ...
copy of her book shows northern features, leading to the conjecture that she may have come from Yorkshire. Sometime between 1413 ...
and Christ, meaning all humanity to be saved. The basic parable weaves into other metaphors: for example, the sinful Adam fell i ...
seems to have cooperated closely. In 686 he dedicated to the king his most signifi cant surviving book, On the Proof of the Sixt ...
general and was then furious when Belisarius dared to entertain an offer from the Goths to take the imperial title in the west. ...
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K KEMPE, MARGERY (ca. 1373–after 1438) Controversial mystic and author of the fi rst extant au- tobiography in English. The Book ...
to the tradition called affec tive piety, characterized by personal devotion to Christ’s hu manity, particularly in the Nativity ...
Washington, National Gallery). They reveal knowledge of works by important painters of the preceding genera- tion in Westphalia ...
heart of her beloved knight. Konrad’s introduction to this story recalls the work of Gottfried von Straßburg. This reference ser ...
KORMÁKR QGMUMDARSON (ca. 930–970) Kormákr Qgmumdarson was an Icelandic poet, the chief character of Kormáks saga. The name (Iris ...
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