IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 1239: Everyday Life in Religious Houses of Normandy and Brittany

Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Ancient Abbeys of Brittany Project
Organiser:	Claude Lucette Evans, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Moderator/Chair:	Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Paper 1239-a	Réflexion sur les besoins de stockage et la circulation des denrées dans les abbayes cisterciennes normandes, XIIe-XIVe siècle (Language: Français) Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et Historiques Médiévales (UMR 6273), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie / Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire, Université de Rouen Normandie Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1239-b	The Last Will and Testament of Guillaume Le Borgne, Sénéchal of Goëlo (1225) (Language: English) Kenneth Paul Evans, School of Administrative Studies, York University, Ontario Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Economics - General, Local History
Paper 1239-c	Eating and Drinking at Beauport and Bégard, 13th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Claude Lucette Evans, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	This session will focus on aspects of everyday life in abbeys of Normandy (paper -a) and Brittany (papers -b and -c) and in surrounding areas. Paper -a will study storage practices and food exchanges between Cistercian abbeys as they are revealed by a study of their sites. Paper -b will concentrate on the will of a wealthy ducal officer. The gifts that he granted to various religious houses and churches dedicated to Breton saints help reconstruct the local history of present-day Côtes d'Armor and give an account of lending practices of the time. Paper -c will analyze the 1288 charter stating the terms of the canons' pittance at Beauport - the only Premonstratensian abbey in Brittany - and a 1427 corrody from the Cistercian abbey of Bégard which gives a number of details about food practices in late Medieval Tregor.