Dr David Petts (Durham University) tells us about his research in northern France: an area in which we know the Vikings to be elusive
The Lives of St Samson: rewriting the ambitions of an early medieval cult
December 26, 2013 By
In the middle of the ninth century, at the monastery of Dol in Brittany, the Life of the sixth-century saint Samson was rewritten. The rewriter evidently perceived a defi- ciency in the existing Life of St Samson, and one that many modern historians would come to share: the fact that it had very little to say about Brittany.
The Librarius and Libraire as Witnesses to the Evolving Book Trade in Ducal Brittany
October 7, 2012 By
In monasteries and cathedrals of the medieval West, the « custos librariae » functioned primarily as a custodian or keeper of bound codices, and we see a similar role emerge from extant medieval registers from Breton cathedral chapters.
Hidden Manna and the Holy Grail: The Psychedelic Sacrament in Arthurian Romance
April 3, 2012 By
Scholars are generally agreed that Arthurian wonder tales like “Cullhwch and Olwen” must have been widely distributed in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany in advance of the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Belief in a living Arthur was then in the air.
THE VIKINGS IN BRITTANY
December 17, 2010 By
THE VIKINGS IN BRITTANY Price, Neil S. (University College London) The Viking Society for Northern Research, Vol. 22 (1989) Abstract When a selection of the objects from the great Viking ship burial on the He de Groix, off the south coast of Brittany, was displayed at Caen in 1987, the accompanying text lamented the fact […]
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