Cartulaire de Landévennec

An 1886 edition of important early medieval charters documenting the expansion of one of Brittany's most ancient religious foundations.

René-François-Laurent Le Men (Edited by), Émile Ernault (Edited by)

9781108021890, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 October 2010

74 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 0.4 cm, 0.12 kg

The abbey of Landévennec, an important foundation dedicated to the Celtic saint Guénolé, 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 Réne-François-Laurent Le Men and Émile 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 Landévennec'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.

Préface H. d'Arbois de Jubainville
Cartulaire de Landévennec
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]