André Vauchez

André Vauchez, 2013

André Vauchez (born July 24, 1938 in Thionville ) is a French medieval and church historian .

Life

André Vauchez went to school in Strasbourg, studied at the École normal supérieure and then went to the École française de Rome (1965 to 1968), where he directed medieval studies from 1972 to 1979. 1968 to 1972 he was an assistant at the Sorbonne . In 1978 he received his doctorate (Thèse de doctorat) with the dissertation La sainteté en Occident aux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge (1198–1431) . 1979/1980 he was research director of the CNRS . In 1980 he became professor in Rouen and in 1983 at the University of Paris X in Nanterre. From 1995 to 2003 he was director of the École française de Rome . In 1991 he became a member of the Institut universitaire de France .

In 1986 Vauchez was visiting scholar at All Souls College, Oxford University and in 1990/1991 at the Institute for Advanced Study .

He deals with the history of Christian spirituality in the Middle Ages and wrote a biography of Francis of Assisi .

Honors

In 2013 he received the Balzan Prize . He is an honorary doctor of the University of Geneva , an officer of the Legion of Honor , commander of the Palmes Académiques and an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite.

He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , of which he was president in 2009.

Fonts

• La spiritualité du Moyen Âge occidental VIIIe – XIIIe. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1975.
• La sainteté en Occident aux derniers siècles du Moyen Age (1198–1431). Rome, École française de Rome, 1981.
  • English translation: Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge, 1987 * Les laïcs au Moyen Âge, Paris, Cerf, 1987
  • German translation: God's forgotten people: laypeople in the Middle Ages. Herder, Freiburg 1993.
• Saints, prophètes et visionnaires: le pouvoir du surnaturel au Moyen Âge. Paris, Albin Michel, 1999.
• François d'Assise. Paris, Fayard, 2009 (The book received the Prix Chateaubriand 2010.)
  • English translation: Francis of Assisi: the life and afterlife of a medieval saint. Yale University Press 2012.
  • German translation: Francis of Assisi. History and memory. Verlag Aschendorf, Münster 2019 (translation: Elisabeth Zacherl).
• Editor and co-author: Histoire du christianisme, Volumes 4 to 6. Paris, Desclée, 1990–1993.
  • German edition: History of Christianity. Herder.
• Publisher: Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Moyen Âge. Paris, Cerf, 2 volumes, 1997–1998.
• Publisher: Christianisme: dictionnaire des temps, des lieux et des figures. Paris, Le Seuil, 2010.
• Publisher: Rome au Moyen Âge. Riveneuve éditions, 2010.
• Publisher: Prophètes et prophétisme. , Payot, 2012.

Web links

• Balzan Prize for Vauchez
• biography
• Publications by André Vauchez in the Opac der Regesta Imperii