Where the Middle Ages Begin
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.
Constructed Landscapes and Social Memory; Tales of St. Samson in Early Medieval Cornwall Harvey, Dr. David C. (Department of Geography, University of Exeter) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 20:2 (2002) Abstract This article considers the historical geography of place and space within the context of medieval Britain. Through examining the geography invoked within a […]
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