Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, Part 2: The French Estates: 22 (Records of Social and Economic History) - Hardcover

Walmsley, John

 
9780197261378: Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, Part 2: The French Estates: 22 (Records of Social and Economic History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 019726137X ISBN 13: 9780197261378
Publisher: British Academy, 1994

Synopsis

This second volume of Caen documents contains important evidence contains important evidence on the economic and social development of monastic estates on both sides of the Channel: rural social structure, inheritance customs, the role of women, peasant migration, personal and place-name studies, and comparative Anglo-Norman studies.

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Synopsis

This is a critical edition of the 12th-century surveys (custumals) of the French estates of the Norman Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen. Together with its companion volume - Marjorie Chibnall's 1982 volume on the Abbey's English estates - it makes available important and relatively scarce comparative material on the economic and social development of monastic estates on both sides of the Channel. The volume also publishes a number of charters up to 1230, concerning property in Normandy and the Channel Islands, including the Abbey's earliest extant charters. This edition contains important evidence for researchers interested in rural social structure, inheritance customs, the role of women, peasant migration, personal-and place-name studies, and comparative Anglo-Norman studies. The book should be of interest to scholars and students interested in medieval, social and economic and ecclesiastical history.

About the Author

John Walmsley studied English Language and Literature at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and General Linguistics, and History of Education, at Edinburgh and Durham respectively. He held teaching posts at Hamburg University and St Mary's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before being appointed Professor of English at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His publications cover topics in linguistics, applied linguistics and foreign language teaching, and the history of linguistics. Current interests include the role of linguistics in education. From 1993 to 1994 he was Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL), Cambridge, UK.

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Publisher
British Academy
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019726137X
ISBN 13 
9780197261378
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
160