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Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Douglas Kelly
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Lancelot-Grail CycleIntroductionThe anonymous Vulgate Lancelot-Grail cycle contains five branches: the Estoire del saint graal, the Merlin, the Lancel...
Late Medieval Preaching
Pietro Delcorno
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Late Medieval PreachingIntroductionPreaching was the most influential and pervasive mass medium of religious and moral instruction in late medieval so...
Latin Arts of Poetry and Prose, Medieval
Douglas Kelly
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Medieval Latin Arts of Poetry and ProseIntroductionModern scholarship on the medieval Latin arts of poetry and prose has focused on a number of treati...
Latino, Brunetto
Julia Bolton Holloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Brunetto LatinoIntroductionScholarship on the 13th-century Florentine Brunetto Latino, usually cited by modern writers as “Brunetto Latini,” has been ...
Libraries in England and Wales
David Bell
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Libraries in England and WalesIntroductionThe period covered in this bibliography is from Anglo-Saxon England to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, o...
Lindisfarne Gospels
Carol A. Farr, Michelle P. Brown
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Lindisfarne Gospels Introduction The Lindisfarne Gospels is a large format, splendidly decorated manuscript presenting the Gospels of Matthew,...
Liturgical Drama
Nils Holger Petersen
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Liturgical Drama Introduction The term liturgical drama was first used in the mid-19th century to denote religious dramas that were part of, o...
Liturgical Processions
Richard W. Pfaff
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Liturgical Processions Introduction Liturgical processions are defined in this article as the ceremonial movement of persons from place to pla...
Liturgy
Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Andrew Hughes
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Liturgy Introduction “Liturgy” refers to the totality of the public worship of the Christian Church. It was the authentic, authorized public e...
Lollards and John Wyclif, The
Fiona Somerset, Derrick Pitard
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
The Lollards and John Wyclif Introduction Lollards, also known as Wycliffites, were members of a religious movement inspired by the Oxford don...
Lombards in Italy
Richard Ring
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Lombards in Italy Introduction The Lombards (sometimes Longobards or Langobards) first appear as a named group in the 1st century ce. By the 5...
London, Medieval
Helen Bradley
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Medieval LondonIntroductionThere is no beginning or end date for medieval London. Long-term changes transformed the post-Roman city into a 16th-centur...
Love, Nicholas
Michael G. Sargent
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Nicholas Love Introduction Nicholas Love, prior of the Carthusian house of Mount Grace, in Yorkshire, 1410–1423, produced The Mirror of the Ble...
Low Countries
Frederik Buylaert
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Low Countries Introduction The medieval Low Countries roughly correspond to the territories of modern-day Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxe...
Lydgate, John
Robert J. Meyer-Lee
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
John Lydgate Introduction John Lydgate (b. c. 1370–d. c. 1450) was a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. He entered the novitia...
Machaut, Guillaume de
Alice V. Clark
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Guillaume de MachautIntroductionGuillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377) is recognized by most scholars as the most important French poet and composer of t...
Magic in the Medieval Theater
Philip Butterworth
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Magic in the Medieval Theater Introduction The concept and practice of magic in the Middle Ages was most popularly associated with witchcraft,...
Maidstone, Richard
Arthur Russell
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Richard MaidstoneIntroductionRichard Maidstone (d. 1396) was a Carmelite friar, theologian, and poet whose career flourished during the reign of Richa...
Malmesbury, Aldhelm of
Rosalind C. Love
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Aldhelm of Malmesbury Introduction Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury (Wiltshire) and then bishop of Sherborne from about 705, was described by Bed...
Malory, Sir Thomas
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Sir Thomas Malory Introduction Most members of British and US cultures know the broad outlines of the Arthur story—the story of the Round Tabl...
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