Ferdinand Lot

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Ferdinand Lot (born  September 20, 1866 in Le Plessis Piquet , †  July 20, 1952 in Fontenay-aux-Roses ) was a French historian . His research dealt with the Middle Ages .

Life

After studying at the École nationale des chartes under Arthur Giry , he became Maître de conférences at the University of Paris in 1909 (Faculté des lettres de Paris). He became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1924 and a corresponding member of the British Academy in 1935 . In his remarks he turned against the historical materialism and the romantic view of history of Augustin Thierry , but supported the critical view of Charles Seignobos and Charles-Victor Langlois . For Lot, a political regime can perish because of the principles that gave it power.

Publications (selection)

  • Etude sur le Lancelot en prose . Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion, Paris 1918 ( digitized ).
  • La Fin du monde antique et le début du Moyen Âge . La Renaissance du Livre, Paris 1927.
  • Les invasions barbaric . Payot, Paris 1937.
  • La France, des origines à la guerre de cent ans . Gallimard, Pari 1941.
  • L'art militaire et les armees au Moyen Age en Europe et dans le Proche Orient . Paris 1946.
  • La Gaule, Les fondements ethniques, sociaux et politiques de la nation française . Fayard, Paris 1947.

literature

  • Alfred Merlin : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Ferdinand Lot, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1956, pp. 453-465 ( digitized version ).
  • Fernand Braudel : Homage to Ferdinand Lot. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilizations 1966, pp. 1177–1178 ( digitized version ).
  • Charles-Edmond Perrin : Ferdinand Lot. L'homme et l'œuvre. In: Recueil des travaux historiques de Ferdinand Lot . Volume 1, Droz, Genève-Paris 1968, pp. 3-118.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 2, 2020 .