Caroline Brett (University of Cambridge)

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450-1200

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on literary, linguistic and archaeological research, this volume explores the medieval history of Brittany and its wider contacts. The authors address questions of cultural interaction and textual transmission, teasing apart the layers of myth and historical record.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 868g
• ISBN-13: 9781108486514
• ISBN-10: 1108486517
• Artikelnr.: 62213099

Autorenporträt

Caroline Brett is Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. She was Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded project 'Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago' and has previously published an edition of two saints' lives from Brittany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Archaeology and the origins of Brittany
2. Settlement and isolation, 450-800
3. Brittany and its Insular past in the ninth century
4. Insular contact and the manuscript culture of Brittany in the ninth and tenth centuries
5. From invasion to conquest: Brittany and its history, 919-1066
6. 'Saints and seaways': the cult of saints in Brittany and its archipelagic links
7. Bretons and Britons in the Norman and Angevin empires, 1066-1203
Conclusion
Bibliography.