Medievalists.net » Brittany http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Vikings in Normandy and Brittany http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/28/vikings-normandy-brittany/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/28/vikings-normandy-brittany/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:01:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50744 Dr David Petts (Durham University) tells us about his research in northern France: an area in which we know the Vikings to be elusive

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/28/vikings-normandy-brittany/feed/ 0 The Lives of St Samson: rewriting the ambitions of an early medieval cult http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/26/the-lives-of-st-samson-rewriting-the-ambitions-of-an-early-medieval-cult/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/26/the-lives-of-st-samson-rewriting-the-ambitions-of-an-early-medieval-cult/#comments Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:03:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46063 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/26/the-lives-of-st-samson-rewriting-the-ambitions-of-an-early-medieval-cult/feed/ 0 The Librarius and Libraire as Witnesses to the Evolving Book Trade in Ducal Brittany http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/07/the-librarius-and-libraire-as-witnesses-to-the-evolving-book-trade-in-ducal-brittany/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/07/the-librarius-and-libraire-as-witnesses-to-the-evolving-book-trade-in-ducal-brittany/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:30:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36321 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/07/the-librarius-and-libraire-as-witnesses-to-the-evolving-book-trade-in-ducal-brittany/feed/ 0 Hidden Manna and the Holy Grail: The Psychedelic Sacrament in Arthurian Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/03/hidden-manna-and-the-holy-grail-the-psychedelic-sacrament-in-arthurian-romance-the-mystery-of-manna-the-psychedelic-sacrament-of-the-bible-park-street-press-2000/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/03/hidden-manna-and-the-holy-grail-the-psychedelic-sacrament-in-arthurian-romance-the-mystery-of-manna-the-psychedelic-sacrament-of-the-bible-park-street-press-2000/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:42:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30739 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/03/hidden-manna-and-the-holy-grail-the-psychedelic-sacrament-in-arthurian-romance-the-mystery-of-manna-the-psychedelic-sacrament-of-the-bible-park-street-press-2000/feed/ 0 THE VIKINGS IN BRITTANY http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/17/the-vikings-in-brittany/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/17/the-vikings-in-brittany/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:37:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=13937 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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