The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne (Medieval Academy Books)

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. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Introduction 12 Countess Blanche 12 The Cartulary of Countess Blanche 19 History of the Cartulary 28 Notes to the Introduction 29 Editorial Principles 36 Abbreviations 38 The Cartulary (1–443) 42 Additions to the Cartulary (444–8) 407 Appendix: Related Letters Not in the Cartulary (449–53) 414 Chronological Table of the Letters 422 Bibliography 434 Index Rerum 442 A 442 B 443 C 444 D 448 E 449 F 450 G 452 H 452 I 453 J 454 L 454 M 455 N 457 O 457 P 458 Q 459 R 459 S 460 T 461 U 462 V 462 Index Nominum 464 A 464 B 466 C 469 D 474 E 474 F 476 G 477 H 480 I 482 J 482 K 484 L 484 M 485 N 488 O 489 P 490 Q 493 R 493 S 495 T 498 U 500 V 500 W 502 Y 502 Introduction. Countess Blanche ; The Cartulary Of Countess Blanche ; History Of The Cartulary ; Notes To The Introduction ; Editorial Principles ; Abbreviations -- Cartulary (1-443) -- Additions To The Cartulary (444-8) -- Related Letters Not In The Cartulary -- Chronological Table Of The Letters. Edited By Theodore Evergates. Text In Latin. Introduction And Some Text In English. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [425]-431) And Indexes. 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."--pub. desc