Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

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John Bell Henneman, Jr.
[See also: ELECTION; GÉNÉRAUX]
Henneman, John Bell. Royal Taxation in Fourteenth Century France: The
Development of War Financing, 1322–1356. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.


EMBER DAYS


. See LITURGICAL YEAR


ENAMELING


. The fusing onto a metallic surface of a vitreous glaze, usually composed of 50 percent
sand, 35 percent red lead, and 15 percent soda or potash, stained to various hues by the
addition of metallic oxides. This is then cast in a slab, which is reduced to a fine powder
and washed to remove impurities. The resultant powder is then


Chasse. Champlevé enamel and copper

gilt on wood. Courtesy of the

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of

J.Pierpont Morgan, 1914.

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