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In this editio princeps of the thirteenth-century cartulary of the French abbey of Premontre in Picardy, Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha maintain the rigorous standard of scholarship demanded of editorial work while profoundly enriching the genre. Matching a deep engagement with the material features, graphic signs, and textual content of the manuscript is their keen awareness of the formative impact of gender and power relations on the production of this cartulary and its reception by successive generations. In this remarkable work, the cartulary, a record of human aspirations, representational strategies, and administrative practices, unfolds as a multilayered, transtemporal site of cultural encounters. - Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak, Professor of History, New York University This meticulous edition of the cartulary of Premontre is a veritable casebook for viewing the complex relationships between the founding monastery of the Premonstratensian Order and the regional aristocratic families of northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The editors offer a masterclass in how to read a cartulary as a cultural artifact: its materiality, contents, organization, and ultimate embodiment of an institution's identity. - Theodore Evergates, editor of The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne

"""In this editio princeps of the thirteenth-century cartulary of the French abbey of Prémontré in Picardy, Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha maintain the rigorous standard of scholarship demanded of editorial work while profoundly enriching the genre. Matching a deep engagement with the material features, graphic signs, and textual content of the manuscript is their keen awareness of the formative impact of gender and power relations on the production of this cartulary and its reception by successive generations. In this remarkable work, the cartulary, a record of human aspirations, representational strategies, and administrative practices, unfolds as a multilayered, transtemporal site of cultural encounters.""--Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak, Professor of History, New York University ""This meticulous edition of the cartulary of Prémontré is a veritable casebook for viewing the complex relationships between the founding monastery of the Premonstratensian Order and the regional aristocratic families of northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The editors offer a masterclass in how to read a cartulary as a cultural artifact: its materiality, contents, organization, and ultimate embodiment of an institution's identity.""--Theodore Evergates, editor of The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne"

In this editio princeps of the thirteenth-century cartulary of the French abbey of Premontre in Picardy, Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha maintain the rigorous standard of scholarship demanded of editorial work while profoundly enriching the genre. Matching a deep engagement with the material features, graphic signs, and textual content of the manuscript is their keen awareness of the formative impact of gender and power relations on the production of this cartulary and its reception by successive generations. In this remarkable work, the cartulary, a record of human aspirations, representational strategies, and administrative practices, unfolds as a multilayered, transtemporal site of cultural encounters. - Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak, Professor of History, New York University This meticulous edition of the cartulary of Premontre is a veritable casebook for viewing the complex relationships between the founding monastery of the Premonstratensian Order and the regional aristocratic families of northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The editors offer a masterclass in how to read a cartulary as a cultural artifact: its materiality, contents, organization, and ultimate embodiment of an institution's identity. - Theodore Evergates, editor of The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne

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Yvonne Seale is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. Heather Wacha is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an independent researcher.

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