Product Description
This is a critical edition of the 12th-century surveys (custumals) of the French estates of the Norman Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen. Together with its companion volume - Marjorie Chibnall's 1982 volume on the Abbey's English estates - it makes available important and relatively scarce comparative material on the economic and social development of monastic estates on both sides of the Channel. The volume also publishes a number of charters up to 1230, concerning property in Normandy and the Channel Islands, including the Abbey's earliest extant charters. This edition contains important evidence for researchers interested in rural social structure, inheritance customs, the role of women, peasant migration, personal-and place-name studies, and comparative Anglo-Norman studies. The book should be of interest to scholars and students interested in medieval, social and economic and ecclesiastical history.