The Cartulary of Prémontré offers a full critical edition, consisting of a transcription of the cartulary’s 509 charters together with historical notes and apparatus. The thirteenth-century cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prémontré is one of the few manuscripts to survive from this monastery. Offering a window into daily life in medieval France and to contemporary documentary practices, the cartulary of Prémontré is a rich source for the socio-economic and religious history of the Picardy and Champagne regions during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The charters contained in the cartulary illuminate how this major northern French abbey functioned as a mother house for the Premonstratensian Order, and how it interacted with people – both elite and non-elite as well as secular and ecclesiastical. It also reveals the complexities of cartulary production within a larger institutional and archival context.
In an introductory essay, Heather Wacha and Yvonne Seale consider not only the history of the manuscript and of the abbey of Prémontré, but also the cartulary’s materiality, its place within the broader field of cartulary studies, and what it shows us about women’s roles in contemporary society. In doing so, this volume offers new connections between the field of cartulary studies and feminist studies.
Edited by:
Yvonne Seale,
Heather Wacha
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Volume: 118
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 165mm,
Spine: 57mm
Weight: 1.480kg
ISBN: 9781487544836
ISBN 10: 1487544839
Series: Medieval Academy Books
Pages: 1016
Publication Date: 07 December 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Abbreviations List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Charts Acknowledgments Introduction Towards a Feminist Edition Towards Material Analysis as a Methodological Approach to the Study of Cartularies The Abbey of Notre-Dame et Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prémontré Par Eulx et Leurs Gens: Prémontré and Its Place in the Social, Economic, and Religious Landscape Social Networks and Patronage Economic Life and the Curtes Network Confraternity and Conflict: Relationships with Other Religious Communities Munimine Roborare: The Cartulary of Prémontré The Manuscript and Its Maker A Brief Description of the Cartulary’s Material Aspects The Conceptual Design and Organizational Schema The Practical Design: The Cartulary Maker's Workflow and Practices The Date of Cartulary Construction and Completion The Historical Context of Cartulary Construction The Context of Documentary Production at the Time of Cartulary Completion Later Readers Conclusion Editorial Principles and Methodology Principles of Transcription Act Structure The Cartulary of Prémontré Bibliography Manuscript Primary Sources from Prémontré Other Manuscript Primary Sources Primary Sources in Print Archaeological Reports Online Resources Secondary Sources Appendices Appendix 1: Other Manuscripts Possibly Made or at Prémontré in the Thirteenth Century Appendix 2: Select Latin Glossary Appendix 3: Select French Glossary Appendix 4: List of Abbots of Prémontré Appendix 5: Bishops of Laon, Noyon, and Soissons Appendix 6: List of Popes Appendix 7: List of Acts in Chronological Order Index
Yvonne Seale is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. Heather Wacha is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an independent researcher.
Reviews for The Cartulary of Prémontré
"""In this editio princeps of the thirteenth-century cartulary of the French abbey of Prémontré in Picardy, Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha maintain the rigorous standard of scholarship demanded of editorial work while profoundly enriching the genre. Matching a deep engagement with the material features, graphic signs, and textual content of the manuscript is their keen awareness of the formative impact of gender and power relations on the production of this cartulary and its reception by successive generations. In this remarkable work, the cartulary, a record of human aspirations, representational strategies, and administrative practices, unfolds as a multilayered, transtemporal site of cultural encounters.""--Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak, Professor of History, New York University ""This meticulous edition of the cartulary of Prémontré is a veritable casebook for viewing the complex relationships between the founding monastery of the Premonstratensian Order and the regional aristocratic families of northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The editors offer a masterclass in how to read a cartulary as a cultural artifact: its materiality, contents, organization, and ultimate embodiment of an institution's identity.""--Theodore Evergates, editor of The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne"
