Monges e mosteiros galegos em Portugal (séculos XII-XV) by Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez

“…The ecclesiastical relations between Galician monasteries and the neighbouring kingdom are also subject of study: basically, the existing data at the archbishop's see of Braga –metropolitan see up to the Western Schism – and the pontifical authorization granted to Galician abbots to intervene in Portuguese affairs. Finally, a brief reference is made to the cultural and spiritual role of Galician monasteries in the neighbouring kingdom.…”
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Marmoutier (Tours) : de l’hôtellerie médiévale à la maison du Grand Prieur by Élisabeth Lorans, Émeline Marot, Gaël Simon

“…Replacing two buildings likely to have been used as hostelries, we have a new construction dated to the end of the 12th century, to be identified with the guest house for high-ranking visitors said to have been built by Hervé de Villepreux in the Chronicle of the abbots of Marmoutier. This fifty-meters’ long construction is made up of a vaulted ground floor, and a large timber-framed hall. …”
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Le travail de Gaignières sur les archives du Val Notre-Dame. Une porte d’entrée sur un chartrier bien conservé by Marlène Helias-Baron

“…In his search for the names of the nobles of the region, he paid particular attention to the oldest deeds (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) and the seals. Including a list of abbots and drawings of burials, his work is a real port of entry to the history of Val Notre-Dame in the Middle Ages.…”
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