Littere baronum : the earliest cartulary of the counts of Champagne / edited by Theodore Evergates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evergates, Theodore, editor.

Series:

Medieval Academy books ; Number 107.

Medieval Academy Books ; Number 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Champagne, Counts of--Archives.

Champagne, Counts of.

Nobility--France--Champagne-Ardenne--History--Sources.

Nobility.

Champagne-Ardenne (France)--Charters, grants, privileges.

Champagne-Ardenne (France).

Champagne-Ardenne (France)--Politics and government--Sources.

Champagne-Ardenne (France)--History--Sources.

France--Politics and government--1987-1328--Sources.

France.

France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The cartulary of 1211 is the oldest surviving register produced by the chancery of the counts of Champagne. This first edition of the cartulary contains 121 letters received from the barons and prelates of the county during the rule of Count Thibaut III (1198-1201) and the first decade of the regency of his widow, Countess Blanche (1201-22).They deal primarily with feudal matters--homage, tenure, the construction and rendering of castles--and lordship over property and rural communities. Since only one-third of the original letters survive, the cartulary copies are particularly valuable in capturing the range of written records entering the chancery of a major French principality around 1200.The introduction to the volume traces the evolution of aristocratic letters patent from the 1140s and argues that they were far more important in the twelfth century, both for transactions between laymen and for transactions with religious houses, than historians of medieval diplomacy have allowed. The introduction goes on to discuss the evolution of the chancery in the twelfth century, the creation of a formal chancery archive in the 1190s, and the organization and contents of the cartulary complied in 1211.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Letters of Barons

The Chancery and Its Archive

The Cartulary of 1211

Notes to the Introduction

Editorial Principles

Notes to the Editorial Principles

Abbreviations

The Cartulary

Appendix

Chronological Table of the Letters

Bibliography

Index Rerum

Index Nominum

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5819-3

1-4426-2086-2

OCLC:

1013963531