Archives d'Anjou
Recueil de Documents et Mémoires Inédits sur Cette Province

Various primary historical documents of the province of Anjou in western France were first published in this 1853 work.

Paul Marchegay (Edited by)

9781108021784, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 November 2010

508 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 kg

Using archival materials and church charters from the province of Anjou, Paul Marchegay provides a broad and comprehensive picture of the history of this province of western France. In Volume 1, published in 1853, the Anjou native and archivist of the province makes use of three primary sources: the papers of the eighteenth-century politician Armand-Thomas Hue, seigneur de Miroménil, a report on the land ownership, economic resources and social conditions of the province made by the diplomat Charles Colbert de Croissy (younger brother of Loius XIV's minister of finance), and finally the medieval charters of Anjou. Marchegay ends this compilation of historical documents on a curious note by transcribing the records of various medieval court cases which were settled by the ordeal of boiling water.

Préface
1. Mémoire de Miroménil
2. Rapport de Charles Colbert
3. Recherches sur les cartulaires d'Anjou
4. Le jugement de Dieu par l'eau Bouillante.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]