AVRANCHES

ävräNshˈ, town (1993 est. pop. 9,520), Manche dept., NW France, in Normandy, on the English Channel. Because of its proximity to the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel, Avranches has a large tourist trade. A Roman town, it became an intellectual center in the early Middle Ages; Lanfranc taught there. It was devastated in the Hundred Years War, the Wars of Religion, and World War II.

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books on: Avranches  - 454 results

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Battle for Mortain: The 30th Infantry Division Saves the Brakout, August 7-12, 1944
Book by Alwyn Featherston; Presidio Press, 1998
Subjects: Avranches (France)--History, Military, Mortain (France)--History, Military, United States--Army--Division, 30th--History, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Avranches, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Mortain
...World War, 1939 1945 Campaigns France Avranches. 3. United States. Army. Division, 30th...Mortain France History, Military. 5. Avranches France History, Military. I. Title...Corps to drive down the coast highway to Avranches, the gateway to Brittany. Bradley called...
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The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis - Vol. 2
Book by Marjorie Chibnall, Orderic Vitalis; Clarendon Press, 1969
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources, Crusades--Sources, Great Britain--History--To 1485--Sources, Middle Ages--Sources, Normandy (France)--History--To 1515--Sources, Normans--Sources
...references to Turgis, who became bishop of Avranches in 1094, having held his see for about...was almost certainly used by Henry of Avranches for his versification of the history...five miles each, and so did Henry of Avranches. The description of the site in the...
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Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066-1087
Book by David Bates; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: England--Charters, Grants, Privileges--Sources, Law, Medieval--Sources, Law--England--Sources
...religieuse, civile et militaire de Saint-James-de- Beuvron Avranches, 1897 251 . MENJOT DELBENNE and DENIS 1903-7...66 214, 215 ; 80 89-97 ; 122 260 ; 172 261 . Avranches, Bib. Mun ., ms. 210 213 III , 214 . BL, Add. Charters...
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Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944
Book by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.; Praeger, 2000
Subjects: Germany--Armed Forces--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France
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Tanks and Armor in Modern Warfare
Book by James Cary; Franklin Watts, 1966
Subjects: Tank Warfare
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journal articles on: Avranches  - 5 results

 
 
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The Episcopal Exemption of Savigny, 1112-1184
Journal article by Francis R. Swietek, Terrence M. Deneen; Church History, Vol. 52, 1983
Subjects: Church History
...by the ordinary, Bishop Turgisius of Avranches. 13 But it is unlikely that so...there. Turgisius, bishop of the see of Avranches, has granted to the same church of the...1119 and addressed to the bishops of Avranches and Le Mans, the count of Mortain...
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Forgiveness
Journal article by Kevin Hart; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 56, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Forgiveness (Book)--Book reviews
...Besides, the Germans have not asked for forgiveness: "German repentance, its name is Stalingrad, its name is the breakthrough at Avranches, its name is defeat" (566). "To presume to be pardoned one must admit to being guilty, without conditions or alleging extenuating...
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Sealing Signs and the Art of Transcribing in the Vierzon Cartulary
Journal article by Robert A. Maxwell; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, 1999
Subjects: Art--Historiography, Charters--History, Historic documents--Evaluation
...Historicity in Pictorial Hagiography: Two Miracles by St. Albinus of Angers," Art History 12, no. 1 (1989): 1-21. (11.) Avranches, Bibliotheque Municipale ms 210, for example, fols. 4v and 19v, dated 1154-58. Cf. Cahn, 33-34, cat, no. 22, figs. 43-44...
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Heritage Preservation as a Public Duty: The Abbé Grégoire and the Origins of an Idea
Journal article by Joseph L. Sax; Michigan Law Review, Vol. 88, 1990
Subjects: Law, Law Reviews--Michigan
...partly to those who built them, and partly to all the generations of mankind who are to follow us. . . . Did the cathedral of Avranches belong to the mob who destroyed it, any more than it did to us, who walk in sorrow to and fro over its foundation? J...
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Carta Al Doctor Percy
Journal article by Daniel Eisenberg; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 21, 2001
Subjects: Bowle, John, Cartas, Editores
...former were consecrated by the clergy.(***) To both, fasting and abstinence from meats were alike enjoined by the Council at Avranches in 1172.(****) The learned Monsieur de LaCurne de Sainte-Palaye, in his Memoires sur lancienne chevalerie, has amassed a...


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A.J. Liebling, a Writist at Work: Old Days at the New Yorker
Magazine article by Dan Pinck; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Winter 1998
Subjects: Authors--Appreciation, Journalists--Appreciation, Liebling, A.J.--Appreciation, Writers--Appreciation
...in food. I am still of the opinion that Lower Normandy has the best sea food, the best mutton (from the salt meadows of the Avranches region), the best beef, the best butter, the best cream, and the best cheese in Europe, and that the ideal light lunch is...
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Britain 1100
Magazine article by Brian Golding; History Today, Vol. 50, April 2000
Subjects: Henry I, King of England--Conduct of life, United Kingdom--History
...marriage. These men might dominate whole shires, as did William Is half-brother, Robert of Mortain, in Cornwall, or Hugh of Avranches in Cheshire. While many were already well-established in Normandy, others came from nowhere. The origins, for example, of...
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Genet's Palestinian Revolution
Magazine article by Ahdaf Soueif; The Nation, Vol. 276, February 24, 2003
Subjects: Prisoner of Love (Book)
...Circassian village on the Golan Heights, after six years of Israeli occupation, is like a village "in Normandy after the landing at Avranches. Looted by the Yanks." And then, in what becomes a motif of the revolution throughout the book, the image of the young fedayee...
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Gathering Mulberries
Magazine article by Alan Harris; History Today, Vol. 44, May 1994
Subjects: Floating harbors--History, Military engineering--History, Normandy Invasion, 1944--Equipment and supplies, World War, 1939-1945--Amphibious operations
...Quiberon bay would be required -- they could accept big ships straight from the USA. But by the time the US Army had reached Avranches at the foot of the Cotentin peninsula, things looked rather different. The Mulberries were going great guns whereas Cherbourg...
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A.J. Leibling, a Writist at Work: Old Days at the New Yorker
Magazine article by Dan Pinck; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Winter 1998
Subjects: Authors--Appreciation, Journalists--Appreciation, Liebling, A.J.--Appreciation, Writers--Appreciation
...in food. I am still of the opinion that Lower Normandy has the best sea food, the best mutton (from the salt meadows of the Avranches region), the best beef, the best butter, the best cream, and the best cheese in Europe, and that the ideal light lunch is...
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newspaper articles on: Avranches  - 4 results

 
 
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46 Kids in Miracle Bus Crash Escape
Newspaper article by Mirror; The Mirror (London, England), June 12, 1997
...They were heading for the ferry at Caen when an articulated lorry slammed into the coach on the main road between Rennes and Avranches. The Portuguese lorry driver was killed instantly. Rescuers rushed to the aid of the youngsters - from St Josephs primary...
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A Wyddoch Chi. Y CELFYDDYDAU
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 31, 2007
...adeiladwyd mwnt a beili yno gan Robert o Rhuddlan, cefnder Hugh o Avranches, iarll Normanaidd Caer, a sefydlodd fwrdeistref ar lannau...adeiladwyd mwnt a beili yno gan Robert o Rhuddlan, cefnder Hugh o Avranches, iarll Normanaidd Caer, a sefydlodd fwrdeistref ar lannau...
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La Vie En Rose
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 19, 2004
...airport. Contact VEF, tel: 020 7515 8660 or visit www.vefuk.com Normandy pounds sterling211,490 An impressive presbytery near Avranches. On three floors, it has five bedrooms, two reception rooms, dining room and three bathrooms. Recently renovated, it also...
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Marooned on Mont St Michel; Simon Heptinstall Stays on France's Most Famous Island And,in His Pyjamas,watches from the Ramparts as the Tide Comes In
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 19, 2006
...Breton countryside - especially the wonderfully wild coast between Cancale and St Malo, and pretty towns such as Dinan and Avranches. Then we returned to the island in the afternoon to explore countless little passageways between gargoyle-encrusted stone...


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encyclopedia articles on: Avranches  - 7 results

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Avranches
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
AVRANCHES avraNsh , town (1993 est. pop. 9,520), Manche dept., NW France, in Normandy, on the English Channel. Because of its proximity to the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel , Avranches has a large tourist trade. A Roman town, it became an intellectual center in the early Middle Ages; Lanfranc taught there...
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Mont-Saint-Michel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Manche dept., NW France, 1 mi (1.6 km) off the coast, near Avranches . The isle is linked with the mainland by a causeway (built...Mont-Saint-Michel was founded in 708 by Saint Aubert, bishop of Avranches. A gigantic group of buildings, rising three stories high...
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Manche
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...coextensive with the Cotentin peninsula and extends S into the Norman woods. Saint-Lo (the capital), Cherbourg , and Avranches are the chief towns, and Mont-Saint-Michel is off the coast. Manche is largely agricultural, with extensive animal breeding...
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Lanfranc
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Pavia. At first educated in civil law, he turned to theology and became a pupil of Berengar of Tours . After teaching in Avranches, Normandy, he went to Bec (c.1040), where he founded an illustrious school and became prior (c.1043). Among his pupils were...
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Normandy Campaign
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...into the battle and broke through the German left flank at Avranches. Patton raced into Brittany and S to the Loire, swinging east...outflank Paris. A German attempt to cut the U.S. forces in two at Avranches was foiled (Aug. 7 11). The British had taken Caen on July...
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