Bretons

Patrick Galliou is Reader at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) and also teaches at the Université 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.

"Excellent. An ideal and thoroughly readable introduction." History "It is extremely useful to have a survey of Breton history and archaeology available in English; it is well illustrated, with 40 well-chosen plates and 26 figures, and there is a valuable bibliography. Will be of considerable assistance to university teachers of medieval history." French History"A very readable - and at times - fascinating account of one of the most individualistic regions of France." Modern and Contemporary France

• List of Plates. List of Figures & Genealogies.Preface.List of Abbreviations.Acknowledgements.Introduction.1. Early Armorica.2. The Early Iron Age.3. The Late Iron Age.4. Roman Armorica: Aspects of Colonization.5. Roman Armorica: Society and Politics.6. After the Romans: Britons, Bretons and Franks.7. Carolingian Brittany.8. The Origins of the Ducal Brittany.9. Plantagenet Interlude.10. Consolidation and Growth, 1213-1341.11. The Civil War, 1341-65.12. Brittany Under the Montfort Dukes, 1365-1491.13. Breton Society at the End of the Middle Ages.14. Conclusion: Brittany and the Bretons since 1491.Bibliography.Index.