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190 The best studies of Norman municipal institutions are A. Chéruel, Histoire de Rouen pendant l'époque communale (Rouen, 1843); A. Giry, Les Établissements de Rouen (Paris, 1883-85), supplemented by Valin, Recherches sur les origines de la commune de Rouen (Précis of the Rouen Academy, 1911); Charles de Beaurepaire, La Vicomté de l'Eau de Rouen (Évreux, 1856); E. de Fréville, Mémoire sur le commerce maritime de Rouen (Rouen, 1857); Miss Bateson, The Laws of Breteuil, in English Historical Review,, ; R. Génestal, La tenure en bourgage (Paris, 1900); Legras, Le bourgage de Caen (Paris, 1911).

The excellent account of the Norman church in H. Böhmer, Kirche und Staat in England und in der Normandie (Leipzig, 1899), stops with 1154. On Odo and on Philip d'Harcourt see V. Bourrienne's articles in the Revue Catholique de Normandie,. The register of Eudes Rigaud (ed. Bonnin, Rouen, 1852) is analyzed by Delisle, in Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes,, pp. 479-99; the Miracula Ecclesie Constantiensis and the letter of Abbot Haimo are discussed by him, ibid.,, pp. 339-52; , pp. 113-39. For the mortuary rolls, see his facsimile edition of the Rouleau mortuaire du B. Vital (Paris, 1909). The best monograph on a Norman monastery is that of R. N. Sauvage, L'abbaye de S. Martin de Troarn (Caen, 1911), where other such studies are listed. See also Génestal, Rôle des monastères comme établissements de crédit étudié en Normandie (Paris, 1901), and Delisle's edition of Robert of Torigni.

The schools of Bec are described by A. Porée, Histoire de l'abbaye du Bec (Évreux, 1901). Notices of the various Norman historians are given by A. Molinier, Les sources de l'histoire de France (Paris, 1901–06), especially, chs. 25, 33. For Ordericus and St. Évroul see Delisle's introduction to the edition of the Historia Ecclesiastica published by the Société de l'Histoire de France, and the volumes issued by the Société historique et archéologique de l'Orne on the occasion of the Fêtes of 1912 (Alençon, 1912). Other early catalogues of libraries, including that of Philip of Bayeux, are in the first two volumes of the ''Catalogue général des MSS. des départements'' (Paris, 1886–88). For the vernacular literature, see Gaston Paris, La littérature normande avant l'annexion (Paris, 1899); and L. E. Menger, The Anglo-Norman Dialect (New York, 1904). For the latest discussions of the Chanson de Roland see J. Bédier, Les légendes épiques, (Paris, 1912); and W. Tavernier's studies in the Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und