Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres: Volume 1

The introductory volume of Guérard's 1840 edition of the medieval charters of the Abbey of Saint-Père at Chartres.

Benjamin Edme Charles Guérard (Edited by)

9781108019408, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 September 2010

636 pages
24.4 x 17 x 3.3 cm, 1 kg

A French historian and curator of the manuscript department at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Benjamin Guérard (1797–1854) made a considerable contribution to the study of medieval French cathedrals and monasteries. Having studied at Dijon, Guérard became a banker in Paris, before studying at the École royales des chartes where he trained as an archivist. He was a founding member of the Société de l'histoire de France, and this publication was part of the society's first series of documents inédits. Guérard was elected to the Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and became the director of the École des chartes in 1848. This collection of the medieval charters of the Abbey of Saint-Père at Chartres was published in Paris in 1840. Volume 1 contains the Prolegomena describing the founding of the abbey, the size of its demesne, its feudal rights, and official structure.

Avant-propos
1. Topographie
2. Des biens
3. De la propriété
4. Des personnes
5. Arts et métiers
6. Offices
7. Des noms de personnes
8. Institutions
9. Droits féodaux et redevances féodales
10. Mesures
Monnaies
11. Valeur et produit des terres
12. Moeurs et usages
13. Faits divers
14. Actes
15. De l'abbaye de Saint-Père
16. Plan de l'édition
Épilogue
17. Éclaircissements et corrections
18. Pouillé du diocèse de Chartres
19. Index chronologicus Chartarum
20. Conspectus totius Chartularii
21. Monasterii Sancti Petri Carnotensis Codex Diplomaticus. Pars prima quae dicitur Vetus Aganon.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]