Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450-1200

Caroline Brett is Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. She was Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded project 'Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago' and has previously published an edition of two saints' lives from Brittany. Fiona Edmonds is Reader in History and Director of the Regional History at Lancaster University. She is the author of Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age, Studies in Celtic History (2019). Paul Russell is Professor of Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include Medieval Latin in the Celtic-speaking world, learned texts in Celtic languages, Celtic philology and linguistics, and medieval Welsh law. He has recently published Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales (2017) and Vita Griffini filii Conani: The Medieval Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan (2005) which won the 2004 Legonna Prize.

• Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Archaeology and the origins of Brittany; 2. Settlement and isolation, 450–800; 3. Brittany and its Insular past in the ninth century; 4. Insular contact and the manuscript culture of Brittany in the ninth and tenth centuries; 5. From invasion to conquest: Brittany and its history, 919–1066; 6. 'Saints and seaways': the cult of saints in Brittany and its archipelagic links; 7. Bretons and Britons in the Norman and Angevin empires, 1066–1203; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'This welcome, authoritative study synthesizes the history and archaeology of early medieval Brittany, framed comparatively in terms of its wider west European, Atlantic connections. Not only students of the European early middle ages but anyone fascinated by the Breton landscape and its history will read it with profit and pleasure.' Marios Costambeys, University of Liverpool