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The Bretons

The Bretons Softcover - 1996

by Galliou, Patrick & Michael Jones

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Wiley-Blackwell. New. 1996. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 063120105X . This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "This book draws upon a wide range of archaeological and literary material to provide a history of one of the most distinctive and individualistic regions of France and its people, from prehistoric times to the present. Focusing upon such themes as trade, settlement, agriclture, transport, population, religion, art and languages, the authors explore the characteristics of a society which has combined peoples from two different linguistic and cultural traditions in a long-enduring political union."; The Peoples Of Europe Series; 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 356 pages .
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  • Title The Bretons
  • Author Galliou, Patrick & Michael Jones
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Paperback Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 356
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, London; Cambridge, MA
  • Date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 27069
  • ISBN 9780631201052 / 063120105X
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.12 x 0.85 in (22.91 x 15.54 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Brittany (France) - History, Bretons - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 944.1

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This book draws upon a wide range of archaeological and literary material to provide a history of one of the most distinctive and individualistic regions of France and its people, from prehistoric times to the present. Focusing upon such themes as trade, settlement, agriculture, transport, population, religion, art and languages, the authors explore the characteristics of a society which has combined peoples from two different linguistic and cultural traditions in a long-enduring political union.

In the book's opening chapter, Patrick Galliou reconstructs early Armorica (the Gaulish name for Brittany) where as early as 5000 BC, under gradually changing physical conditions, human communities appeared in the peninsula and a highly idiosyncratic culture evolved. Dr Galliou traces the development of this culture through the later Neolithic, and the Bronze Age, to Roman and post-Roman Brittany. Beginning with the Frankish period, Michael Jones traces Breton history in the Middle Ages. He describes the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Brittany; the Plantagenets; the civil war (1341-65), and the medieval Breton state under the Montfort Dukes. He concludes with an overview of Brittany's history from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day.

Extensively illustrated with half-tones, maps and diagrams, the book will be of wide interest to archaeologists, historians and anthropologists, as well as to the general reader.

About the author

Patrick Galliou is Reader at the Universit de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) and also teaches at the Universit of Haute Bretagne (Rennes). Most of his published work concerns Iron Age and Roman Brittany, and he is currently involved in a major survey of North-Western Gaul.

Michael Jones is Professor of Medieval French History at the University of Nottingham. For some years he has been involved in a major multidisciplinary study of Breton seigneurial buildings, and he has also worked on the Romanesque town house of Cluny. He is Editor of Nottingham Medieval Studies and of Volume VI of the New Cambridge Medieval History.

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