Philippe Contamine
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Philippe Contamine | |
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 Philippe Contamine in 2016 | |
| Born | 7 May 1932 |
| Died | 26 January 2022 (aged 89) |
| Education | Lycée Hoche |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
Philippe Contamine (7 May 1932 – 26 January 2022) was a French historian of the Middle Ages who specialised in military history and the history of the nobility.
Life
[edit]Contamine was a president of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, the Société de l'histoire de France, and the Societé des Antiquaires de France. He taught at the Université de Nancy, the Paris Nanterre University at Nanterre and Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris-Sorbonne). He was an officer of the Legion of Honour[citation needed] and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]
He died on 26 January 2022, at the age of 89.[2]
Select bibliography
[edit]- Guerre, État et Société à la Fin du Moyen Âge. Études sur les armées des rois de France, 1337-1494 (doctoral thesis, Paris, 1972)
- La Guerre au Moyen-Âge (1980)
- La France et l'Angleterre pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, (Hachette, 1982).
- Guerre et Société en France, en Angleterre et en Bourgogne XIVe et XVe siècles (Lille, 1991)
- Histoire Militaire de la France vol.1 (Paris, 1992)
- 'The Soldiery in Late Medieval Society', in French History 8 (1994)
- La noblesse au royaume de France, de Philippe le Bel à Louis XII (1997)
- Histoire de la France politique. I, Le Moyen Âge, 481-1514, le roi, l'Église, les grands, le peuple (2002)
References
[edit]- ^ "Royal Historical Society Annual Newsletter 2022" (PDF). p. 34. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ "L'historien Philippe Contamine est mort". Le Monde. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- Biography at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Categories:
- 1932 births
- 2022 deaths
- 20th-century French historians
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- French medievalists
- University of Paris alumni
- Academic staff of Nancy-Université
- Academic staff of the University of Paris
- Writers from Metz
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Lycée Hoche alumni
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers
- 21st-century French historians