Conference: a history of the Cotentin priories

Name: Conference: a history of the Cotentin priories
Start: 2023-09-16T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Manoir Sainte-Suzanne

Julien Deshayes, Director of the Pays d'art et d'histoire du Clos du Cotentin and Research Fellow at the Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale of the Université d...

Saturday 16 September 2023, 16:30Passed

Conditions

Duration 1h30.

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Julien Deshayes, director of the Pays d'art et d'histoire du Clos du Cotentin and associate researcher at the Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale of the University of Caen, will offer an illustrated talk, aimed at tracing the history of the Manoir Sainte-Suzanne de Sottevast by placing it in the context of the rise and development of the priories and small monastic establishments of the medieval Cotentin.

About the location

Manoir Sainte-Suzanne

4 chemin de l'abbaye, 50260 Sottevast

Manche
Normandie

The “manoir Sainte-Suzanne”, often known as the “ferme de l’Abbaye” is located in the hollow of a narrow valley irrigated by the Planquette Creek at Sottevast, on the edge of Rocheville and Saint-Martin-le-Hébert. This «Sainte Suzanne manor» has known its hours of glory since the 11th century as a monastic domain of the abbey of Lessay In order to give meaning to the restoration that we must consider on the Sainte Suzanne Manor, the idea is to create an association whose objective will be to propose and implement cultural activities around creation, reading, writing