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Charles Martel
male, deceased - Charles Martel (or, in modern English, Charles "the Hammer") (23 August 686 - 22 October 741) was proclaimed Mayor of the Palace, ruling the Franks...
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Chivalry
male - Chivalry refers to the medieval institution of knighthood and, most especially, the ideals that were (or have become) associated with it. It is...
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Giovanni Boccaccio
male, deceased - Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important...
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Troubadour
male - A troubadour (a French adaptation of the Occitan word trobador) was a composer and performer of songs during the High Middle Ages in Europe. The...
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Maurice Keen
male - Maurice Keen (b. 1933) is a Bristish historian specialising in the Middle Ages. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, where he...
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Geoffroi de Charny
male, deceased - Geoffroi de Charny was a French knight and author of several works on Chivalry. A knight in the service of King John II of France and a member of...
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Matteo Maria Boiardo
male, deceased - Matteo Maria Boiardo (c. 1434 - December 20, 1494), was an Italian Renaissance poet. Boiardo was born at, or near, Scandiano (today's province of...
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Ibn Said
male - Ibn Said was the most important collector of Andalusian poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries. Ibn Said was born at Alcalá la Real near Granada. H...
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Jean Le Fevre
male, deceased - Jean Le Fevre (c. 1395 - June 16, 1468), was a Burgundian chronicler and seigneur of Saint Remy. He is also known as "Toison d'or" from his long...
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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
male, deceased - Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué, was a German writer of the romantic movement. He was born at Brandenburg. His grandfather had b...
