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Cartulaire de Landévennec
Contributor(s): Le Men, René-François-Laurent (Editor), Ernault, Émile (Editor)
ISBN: 1108021891     ISBN-13: 9781108021890
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.34  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Language: French
Published: October 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - General
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
Physical Information: 0.15" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.26 lbs) 74 pages
 
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The abbey of Land vennec, an important foundation dedicated to the Celtic saint Gu nol , was brought under the Benedictine rule by Louis the Pious in the ninth century. Its cartulary, compiled in the eleventh century, is an essential source for historians of medieval Brittany. The Latin charters were edited and published in 1886 by R ne-Fran ois-Laurent Le Men and mile Ernault. Their preface provides a detailed description of the manuscript, including foliation, scripts, rubrication and an analysis of Breton personal and place names, whose changing orthography provides evidence for the development of the language over the centuries. The text includes a list of Land vennec's abbots, charters documenting the expansion of the abbey's holdings over the course of the tenth and eleventh centuries, and a list of the counts of Cornouaille. A complete index also provides translations of Breton terms into French.