Littere Baronum
Littere Baronum: The Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne
Edited by Theodore Evergates
Series: Medieval Academy Books
Copyright Date: 2003
Published by: University of Toronto Press
Pages: 230
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Littere Baronum
Book Description:

This first edition of the cartulary contains 121 letters received from the barons and prelates of the county during the rule of Count Thibaut III (1198-1201) and the first decade of the regency of his widow, Countess Blanche (1201-22).

eISBN: 978-1-4426-2086-5
Subjects: History
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS
    ILLUSTRATIONS (pp. vii-viii)
  4. PREFACE
    PREFACE (pp. ix-1)
  5. INTRODUCTION
    INTRODUCTION (pp. 3-36)

    The chancery of the counts of Champagne produced eight cartularies in the course of the thirteenth century.¹ Seven survive and the eighth is fully recoverable through modern copies, making them the largest collection of princely cartularies from medieval France. In the strictest sense, the cartularies are codex copies of incoming documents stored in the chancery’s archive. When the first volume was produced in 1211, the archive held perhaps two hundred sealed letters (letters patent) from the barons and prelates of Champagne dealing in some respect with comital governance. By 1271, when the last two massive cartularies were compiled, there were...

  6. EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES
    EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES (pp. 37-38)
  7. ABBREVIATIONS
    ABBREVIATIONS (pp. 39-42)
  8. THE CARTULARY
    THE CARTULARY (pp. 43-158)
  9. APPENDIX
    APPENDIX (pp. 159-164)
  10. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE LETTERS
    CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE LETTERS (pp. 165-168)
  11. BIBLIOGRAPHY
    BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp. 169-178)
  12. INDEX RERUM
    INDEX RERUM (pp. 179-190)
  13. INDEX NOMINUM
    INDEX NOMINUM (pp. 191-210)
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