03597nam 2200589 450 991078749170332120231221103718.01-4426-5819-31-4426-2086-210.3138/9781442620865(CKB)3710000000329569(MiAaPQ)EBC4670115(DE-B1597)465504(OCoLC)1013963531(OCoLC)944178974(DE-B1597)9781442620865(Au-PeEL)EBL4670115(CaPaEBR)ebr11256629(OCoLC)904377132(EXLCZ)99371000000032956920160922h20032003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLittere baronum the earliest cartulary of the counts of Champagne /edited by Theodore EvergatesToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2003.©20031 online resource (231 pages) illustrations, mapMedieval Academy Books ;Number 1071-4426-5765-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 --BackmatterThe 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.Medieval Academy books ;Number 107.NobilityFranceChampagne-ArdenneHistorySourcesChampagne-Ardenne (France)Charters, grants, privilegesChampagne-Ardenne (France)Politics and governmentSourcesChampagne-Ardenne (France)HistorySourcesFrancePolitics and government1987-1328SourcesFranceHistoryMedieval period, 987-1515SourcesNobilityHistory944/.31Evergates TheodoreMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787491703321Littere baronum3700824UNINA