Moissac, Saint-Pierre, cloister.
Photograph courtesy of Rebecca
A.Baltzer.
Other notable features include a lapidary museum; a 12th-century Crucifixion in
wood; a Pieta with donor (1476); a Flight into Egypt (15th c.); an Entombment from the
tomb of Abbot Pierre de Caraman (15th c.); and a Merovingian sarcophagus.
Jean M.French
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s.: Moissac—Beaulieu—Saint-Denis.” Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 33(1990): 317–49.
Mezoughi, Noureddine. “Le tympan de Moissac: études d’iconographie.” Cahiers de Saint-Michel
de Cuxa 9 (1978):171–200. [Includes a survey of iconographic studies.]
Moissac et l’Occident au XIe siècle: actes du Colloque International de Moissac, 1963. Toulouse:
Privat, 1964.
Rupin, Ernest. L’abbaye et les cloîtres de Moissac. Paris: Picard, 1897.
Schapiro, Meyer. “The Romanesque Sculpture of Moissac.” In Romanesque Art: Selected Papers.
New York: Braziller, 1977.
Vidal, Marguerite, Jean Maury, and Jean Porcher. Quercy roman. 3rd ed. La Pierre-qui-vire:
Zodiaque, 1959.
MOLINET, JEAN
(1453–1507). Molinet was born at Desvres in the Pas-de-Calais and studied in Paris. He
became court historiographer for Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, in 1475 after the
death of Georges Chastellain, his protector and the previous historiographer. In addi-tion
to compiling the official chronicles for his patrons, Molinet wrote verse and prose in
many forms: plays, a prose adaptation of the Roman de la Rose with moral commentary,
occasional poems, religious and allegorical pieces, débats, and some obscene verse. Like
his fellow Rhétoriqueur poets, he played with etymologies and puns, described marvels,
and used allegory and mythological allusion as moral examples. In a poem to the Virgin,
all the words in each of the five stanzas of huitains begin with the appropriate letter of
her name: M, A, R, I, E. What we tend to see as tricks and excesses were derived from
the Rhétoriqueurs’ conviction that the physical world is an analogue of the spiritual; what
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