The Cartulary of Pr montr? 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 Pr montr? 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 Pr montr? 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 Pr montr , 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.
This volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Pr montr .
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 Cartularys 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.
