erat, and (3) at the conclusion of the canticle. The practice could be further amplified by
repeating the antiphon or a portion thereof between all the verses of the canticle.
Joseph Dyer
[See also: ANTIPHON; O ANTIPHONS]
Alonzo, Pio. L’antifonario dell’ufficio romano. Subiaco: Tipografia dei Monasteri, 1935, pp. 124–
55.
Cabrol, Ferdinand, ed. “Cantiques évangeliques.” In Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de
liturgie. 15 vols. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1907–53, Vol. 2, Part 2, pp. 1994–99.
Mearns, James. The Canticles of the Christian Church, Eastern and Western, in Early and
Medieval Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914.
O’Carroll, Michael. “Magnificat.” In Theotokos: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. Wilmington: Glazier, 1982.
MAILLART, JEAN
(d. 1327). Member of the chancelleries of Philip III and Philip IV the Fair between ca.
1286 and 1316 and canon of Tournai after 1311. Maillart completed his Roman du comte
d’Anjou in 1316 after working on it for many years. It is preserved in two manuscripts
(B.N. fr. 765 and fr. 4531), and the poem comprises 8,156 lines of octosyllabic rhymed
couplets in the standard edition. In spite of its title, the romance recounts the tribulations
of the count of Anjou’s daughter, who is driven from home by his incestuous advances.
She works as a seamstress but is eventually wed to the count of Bourges. Yet another
folklore motif has her husband’s jealous relatives use an intercepted letter to inform him
that his wife has given birth to a monster; a second false letter condemns her and her
beautiful son to death. Eventually, the truth is revealed and the moral lesson is drawn that
virtue and faith in God will triumph over evil. The theme of the incestuous father is also
found in Belle Helaine de Constantinople, Lion de Bourges, and Philippe de
Beaumanoir’s La Manekine.
William W.Kibler
[See also: BEAUMANOIR, PHILIPPE DE REMI, SIRE DE; BELLE HELAINE DE
CONSTANTINOPLE; DANCE; FAUVEL, LIVRES DE; LATE EPIC; REALISTIC
ROMANCES]
Maillart, Jean. Le roman du comte d’Anjou, ed. Mario Roques. Paris: Champion, 1931.
Langlois, Charles-Victor. La vie en France au moyen âge de la fin du XIIe au milieu du XIVe
siècle. Paris: Hachette, 1926–28, Vol. 1: D’après des romans mondains du temps, pp. 260–85.
MAIMONIDES, INFLUENCE OF
. Moses Maimonides, who was born in Cordova, Spain, in 1135, and died in Cairo,
Egypt, in 1204, was the greatest medieval Jewish theologian and one of the most
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