The British Settlement Of Brittany

Author : Pierre-Roland Giot
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Settlement of Brittany written by Pierre-Roland Giot and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period AD 350-950, this book by three distinguished French scholars examines why and how, in Late Antiquity and the early Dark Ages, Britons from the Roman province of Britannia went over to Armorica, part of ancient Gaul, and settled there.

Author : Caroline Brett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110878657X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200 written by Caroline Brett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Brittany get its name and its British-Celtic language in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire? Beginning in the ninth century, scholars have proposed a succession of theories about Breton origins, influenced by the changing relationships between Brittany, its Continental neighbours, and the 'Atlantic Archipelago' during and after the Viking age and the Norman Conquest. However, due to limited records, the history of medieval Brittany remains a relatively neglected area of research. In this new volume, the authors draw on specialised research in the history of language and literature, archaeology, and the cult of saints, to tease apart the layers of myth and historical record. Brittany retained a distinctive character within the typical 'medieval' forces of kingship, lordship, and ecclesiastical hierarchy. The early history of Brittany is richly fascinating, and this new investigation offers a fresh perspective on the region and early medieval Europe in general.

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198851626
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bretons and Britons written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long history of the Bretons, from prehistoric times to the present, and the very close relationship they have had with their British neighbours. It is a story of a fiercely independent people and their struggle to maintain their distinctive identity.

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192592467
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bretons and Britons written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about Brittany that makes it such a favourite destination for the British? To answer this question, Bretons and Britons explores the long history of the Bretons, from the time of the first farmers around 5400 BC to the present, and the very close relationship they have had with their British neighbours throughout this time. More than simply a history of a people, Bretons and Britons is also the author's homage to a country and a people he has come to admire over decades of engagement. Underlying the story throughout is the tale of the Bretons' fierce struggle to maintain their distinctive identity. As a peninsula people living on a westerly excrescence of Europe they were surrounded on three sides by the sea, which gave them some protection from outside interference, but their landward border was constantly threatened - not only by succeeding waves of Romans, Franks, and Vikings, but also by the growing power of the French state. It was the sea that gave the Bretons strength and helped them in their struggle for independence. They shared in the culture of Atlantic-facing Europe, and from the eighteenth century, when a fascination for the Celts was beginning to sweep Europe, they were able to present themselves as the direct successors of the ancient Celts along with the Cornish, Welsh, Scots, and Irish. This gave them a new strength and a new pride. It is this spirit that is still very much alive today.

Author : Wendy Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000950883
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brittany in the Early Middle Ages written by Wendy Davies and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural communities, on the settlement of disputes, and on transmission of property. While the Redon charters have long been known as a source of fundamental importance for Breton history, the author's database (established in the 1980s) allowed much greater understanding of the role of individuals - at all social levels, and particularly peasant level - than had previously been possible. Attention to the detail of the east Breton past also includes papers on some of the results of her fieldwork, on building stone in particular. Early medieval Brittany is not merely interesting in itself (and it is certainly not some Celtic backwater): Breton evidence can usefully be differentiated from the evidence of other Celtic areas and has a significant role in wider issues of European history. As well as papers on the familiar themes of kingship, rulership, cult sites and cemeteries, the final section highlights the distinctive quality of the Breton evidence for the protection of sacred and personal space, for slavery and serfdom and for village-level courts.

Author : Nora Kershaw Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Brittany written by Nora Kershaw Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher A. Snyder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047075821X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Britons written by Christopher A. Snyder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating and unique history of the Britons from the late Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. It also discusses the revivals of interest in British culture and myth over the centuries, from Renaissance antiquarians to modern day Druids. A fascinating and unique history of the Britons from the late Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. Describes the life, language and culture of the Britons before, during and after Roman rule. Examines the figures of King Arthur and Merlin and the evolution of a powerful national mythology. Proposes a new theory on the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain and the establishment of separate Brittonic kingdoms. Discusses revivals of interest in British culture and myth, from Renaissance antiquarians to modern day Druids.

Author : Caroline Brett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486517
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200 written by Caroline Brett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brittany is rich in arch ...

Author : Caroline Brett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108760102
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450-1200 written by Caroline Brett and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brittany is rich in archaeological remains from prehistory. At many junctures in the remote past, the peninsula has been a centre of cultural innovation, or a corridor by which innovations have passed between the Mediterranean, inland Europe and the Atlantic. At the dawn of the Neolithic, it was the home of some of Europe's earliest and most spectacular megalithic funerary monuments, in particular the sequence of long mounds, passage graves and tumuli around Carnac from between 4700 and 3500 BC. At about the same period, thousands of dolerite axes made from the local stone at Plussulien, Côtes d'Armor, were transported all over western France. In the third millennium BC, rich grave goods and votive deposits show the region benefiting from its central position along the riverine and ocean trade routes from the Mediterranean to Britain. In the later Bronze Age Brittany may have been relatively isolated, a possible sign of this being the manufacture of thousands of non-functional bronze axes with a high lead content, purely for ritual burial. But from ca 500 BC Brittany's external contacts revived, with signs that it developed a 'middleman' role in channelling materials such as tin and copper from southern Ireland and south-west Britain to the power centres of west-central Europe, and later to the Mediterranean. It may have been by way of Brittany that La Tène art spread to Britain in the fifth century BC, the region's elegantly decorated pottery making use of the sinuous motifs of central European metalwork in a new medium. A dense settlement pattern reveals an elite able to assert its status with defended, banked and ditched enclosures and, on the coast, 'cliff castles'. Another distinctive artefact that survives in thousands from Iron Age Brittany is the stela, or shaped stone column. On the eve of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul for the Roman Empire, we glimpse the political make-up of the peninsula. It comprised five territorial units, civitates, that each issued its own sophisticated coinage and had become rich from trading in Mediterranean wine with southern Britain; and it was part of a larger maritime region called in Gaulish Aremorica, the land facing the sea. 'Armorica' (French Armorique) is often used by modern writers as a synonym for Brittany, or as a convenient term for the peninsula in the prehistoric and Roman periods before it was settled by Britons. It must be borne in mind, however, that historically the name 'Armorica' referred to different extents of land at different times, usually including more territory than what later became 'Brittany'"--

Author : Wendy Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521428958
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe written by Wendy Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history. Case material, from the evidence of charters, is used to reveal the realities of the settlement process in the behaviour and interactions of people - instead of the prescriptive and idealised models of law-codes and edicts. The book is not therefore a technical study of charters evidence. The geographical range across Europe is unusually wide, which allows comparison across differing societies. Frankish material is inevitably prominent, but the contributors have sought to integrate Celtic, Greek, Italian and Spanish material into the mainstream of the subject. Above all, the book aims to 'demystify' the study of early medieval law, and to present a radical reappraisal of established assumptions about law and society.