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Claude Evans

Title/Position
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Emerita, French Studies
Language Studies

Claude Evans is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, in French Studies in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga and an Associated Scholar at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.St George. Her publications mostly deal with historical and philological themes concerning Medieval Brittany.

Areas of Academic Interest

  • Edition of Medieval Latin and French Charters
  • Medieval Brittany, History of the Cistercian and Premonstratensian orders

Current projects and activities

Claude is preparing a volume entitled "Fondation des abbayes de Saint-Rion et de Beauport, Privilèges pontificaux, Sphères d’influence des évêques de Saint-Brieuc, Dol, Tréguier et Lincoln (1198-1305)". This volume includes the edition of 189 medieval documents originating from or pertaining to Beauport Abbey, the only Premonstratensian abbey in Brittany, and its predecessor, the Victorine island monastery of Saint-Rion. She is also coediting two volumes of articles "Monastères, convergences, échanges et confrontations dans l’Ouest de l’Europe au Moyen Âge." and "Cistercians and Regular Canons in Medieval Western Europe: Origins and identities" stemming from two colloquia sponsored by her Ancient Abbeys of Brittany Project.

Claude retired in 2021.

Education
Ph.D. (Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
M.A. (French Linguistics, University of Rochester, N.Y)
Licence-ès-Lettres (Anglais, Université de Rennes)

Publications

L'abbaye cistercienne de Bégard des origines à 1476 : histoire et chartes, ARTEM 16 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012). 467 p.

"Les Chartes de l'abbaye de Beauport des origines à 1305: analyse des données". Un ‘Scriptorium’ et son époque : les chanoines de Beauport et la société bretonne au Moyen Âge, ed. by Cédric Jeanneau, (Brest : CRBC, Université de Bretagne occidentale, 2015), pp. 31-57

"Vincent de Kerléau Abt von Bégard (1443–1476) und Prières (1467–1476); Bischof von Léon (1473–1476); Diplomat und Staatsbeamter im Dienste der Herzöge der Bretagne". In Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography) ed. by Gerd Gessinger.

"Conservation de la mémoire et vérité historique dans les Archives de l'Abbaye de Bégard (1130-1476) : Histoires des Bretagnes - 4 : Les Conservateurs de la mémoire. H. Bouget, A. Chauou et C. Jeanneau (dir.),Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest, 2013: 55-66.

"Activités outre-Manche des Cisterciens de Bégard et des Prémontrés de Beauport des origines à 1414". Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Bretagne XCI, (2013): 428-442

Other

Specialization
French Studies
Current Courses
FRE372H5 The French Language through Space and Time I, FRE372H5 The French Language through Space and Time II