Key Figures in Medieval Europe. An Encyclopedia
KÜRENBERC, DER VON (fl. late 12th c.) Der von Kürenberc is the earliest named German lyric poet. His poems are preserved only in ...
L LA VIGNE, ANDRÉ DE (ca. 1457–ca. 1515) Late-medieval poet and playwright. Born between 1457 and 1470 in the port city of La Ro ...
LANDINI, FRANCESCO (c. 1325–2 September 1397) Francesco Landini was a composer, organist, singer, instrument maker, and poet of ...
by diffi culties of language: no clearer statement of the central issue was to be possible until the introduction of Aristotelia ...
lag ein kind (In a little crib lay a child) is representa- tive in its straightforward narration, plain diction, and heartfelt r ...
text—that is, the many coinages and poetic compounds with a distinctly Anglo-Saxon ring about them and the marked preference for ...
Theodosius voluntarily handed Leo the throne. Leo’s greatest achievement was to thwart the Arab siege of Constantinople in 717–7 ...
Pope Stephen IX, and Hugh of Remiremont. Joining the men of the north would be such Italian church- men as Peter Damian and Hild ...
of a number of women saints. That the additions have to do with women would seem not to be a coincidence. Neither would the fact ...
two is ambiguous. Throughout the work, the Zohar never loses sight of its goal: to create a mystical com- mentary on the Torah i ...
description of a Magnus liber organi, and the melodies of the plainchant that form the basis of that organum match notated plain ...
LEVI BEN GERSHOM (GERSONIDES) (1288–1344) Although he was born and lived his entire life in then French Provence, Gersonides was ...
Notre Dame (B.N. n.a. lat. 3093), a miniature of the duke of Berry embarking on a journey in the Petites Heures (B.N. lat. 18014 ...
which Antapodosis is a prime example). His urbane, witty, sarcastic, and occasionally ribald style makes him sound curiously mod ...
the form and method for writing the aforementioned book against the errors of the unbelievers.” (See below for Contemporary Life ...
and more involved in the art of preaching, writing a vast Summa sermonum in Mallorca (1312–1313). Llull’s last works are dated f ...
man, paradise, and hell. Like Blaquerna, this novel of- fers plenty of morally meaningful exempla, but unlike the earlier work, ...
ciation, and Lochner’s characteristic sweetness, grace, and delicacy. The fi gures in this altarpiece are the fi rst life-size f ...
even his veracity, has been questioned because he reports so many barbarous acts, and because he views Pedro I primarily as a ne ...
during the dynastic struggle he waged against his half- brother, Enrique de Trastámara. The social climate of the decades follow ...
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