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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458412503321

Titolo

The cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne / / edited by Theodore Evergates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4426-9750-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Collana

Medieval Academy Books ; ; Number 112

Disciplina

944/.3023

Soggetti

Nobility - France - Champagne-Ardenne - History - To 1500

Countesses - France - Champagne-Ardenne

Electronic books.

Champagne-Ardenne (France) Charters, grants, privileges

Champagne-Ardenne (France) Politics and government Sources

Champagne-Ardenne (France) History To 1500 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published for the Medieval Academy of America."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Editorial Principles -- Abbreviations -- The Cartulary 1-99 -- The Cartulary 100-199 -- The Cartulary 200-299 -- The Cartulary 300-399 -- The Cartulary 400-443 -- Additions to the Cartulary (444-8) -- Appendix: Related Letters Not in the Cartulary (449-53) -- Chronological Table of the Letters -- Bibliography -- Index Rerum -- Index Nominum

Sommario/riassunto

The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne examines the countess' twenty-one-year regency (1201-22) through her cartulary - a manuscript copy of legal and otherwise public documents usually intended as an archival aid and as a security duplicate. Surviving intact to this day, the 1224 volume is unusual in that it was commissioned as a personal, commemorative document for the countess in retirement, after a successful career in which she preserved the county from a divisive civil war, expanded the county's borders, and transformed comital-baronial relationships.The 443 letters contained in the cartulary deal with practical matters of governance such as homages,



fiefs, and the rights of lordship, and are here used by Theodore Evergates as a dossier for observing the practices of a major French principality and its aristocracy in the first two decades of the thirteenth century.