Brittany in the Early Middle Ages : Texts and Societies (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; Breton Charters: The composition of the Redon cartulary; Forgery in the Cartulaire du Redon; Les chartes du Cartulaire de Landevennec. East Breton Society: On the distribution of political power in Brittany in the mid-9th century; Priests and rural communities in East Brittany in the 9th century; Disputes, their conduct and their settlement in the village communities of Eastern Brittany in the 9th century; People and places in dispute in 9th-century Brittany; Suretyship in the Cartulaire du Redon; Intra-family transactions in South-eastern Brittany: the dossier from Redon; Wynebwerth et enepuuert: l'entretien des epouses dans la Bretagne du IXe siecle; A note on ville name forms and settlement development in the Morbihan; Field survey and the problem of surface scatters of building material: some East Breton evidence; Surface scatters of building stone: enhancing field survey work. Brittany in the Wider World: Ecclesiastical centres and secular society in the Brittonic world in the 10th and 11th centuries; 'Protected space' in Britain and Ireland in the Middle Ages; Celtic kingships in the early Middle Ages; Alfred's contemporaries: Irish, Welsh, Scots and Breton; On servile status in the early Middle Ages; Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts; Index.