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Brittany in the Early Middle Ages - Texts and Societies (Paperback)
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Brittany in the Early Middle Ages - Texts and Societies (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton
texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the
Redon and Landevennec cartularies, it continues with papers that
tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century
Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural
communities, on the settlement of disputes, and on transmission of
property. While the Redon charters have long been known as a source
of fundamental importance for Breton history, the author's database
(established in the 1980s) allowed much greater understanding of
the role of individuals - at all social levels, and particularly
peasant level - than had previously been possible. Attention to the
detail of the east Breton past also includes papers on some of the
results of her fieldwork, on building stone in particular. Early
medieval Brittany is not merely interesting in itself (and it is
certainly not some Celtic backwater): Breton evidence can usefully
be differentiated from the evidence of other Celtic areas and has a
significant role in wider issues of European history. As well as
papers on the familiar themes of kingship, rulership, cult sites
and cemeteries, the final section highlights the distinctive
quality of the Breton evidence for the protection of sacred and
personal space, for slavery and serfdom and for village-level
courts.
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