Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe - XVe siècles). Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle. Amérique centrale et du sud Quarterly journal of regional studies

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Manuscrits et enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe - XVe siècles). Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle. Amérique centrale et du sud Quarterly journal of regional studiesIn the territory of what would become Normandy, at the beginning of the 10th century, there were hardly any libraries left, monastic or cathedral, that had escaped pillaging by the Vikings. The beginning of the 11th century saw a revival of the art of writing and illuminating manuscripts in Norman monasteries that were rising from their ruins. The exceptional brilliance of these scriptoria of the 11th and 12th centuries coincided with Norman expansion