James France

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James France (* 1930 in Brussels ) is a British - Danish businessman, religious historian , art historian, Cistercian researcher and author.

life and work

The businessman

James France is the son of the British designer furniture manufacturer Charles William Fearnley France (1897–1972) and his wife Renée Mauricette France (1898–1981). From 1936 he grew up in Denmark , where his father and family had moved. France studied at the University of Oxford and graduated with a Master of Arts. In 1957 he went into his father's business (for which Finn Juhl designed furniture, among others ). After the company was sold in 1966, he was an independent businessman. In 2016 he published a book about the history of the family business France & Søn .

The Cistercian explorer

From retirement, James returned to science and worked in the field of Cistercian exploration (started in Oxford). After books on the Cistercians in Scandinavia (1992) and in medieval art (1998), he received his doctorate from the University of Roskilde in 2002 with the work The Medieval iconography of St Bernard of Clairvaux c 1135 - c 1530 (entered into the book Medieval images in 2007 of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ). In 2012 he presented another study of the conversations in the Cistercian order. France has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) since 1998 .

Works

  • The Cistercians in Scandinavia . Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich. 1992. (577 pp.) (Cistercian studies series 131)
  • The Cistercians in medieval art . Sutton, London 1998. (278 pp.)
  • Medieval images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux . Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich. 2007. (435 pages)
  • Separate but equal. Cistercian lay brothers, 1120-1350 . Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn. 2012. (372 pages)
  • France & Søn-British pioneer of Danish furniture . Forlaget Vita, Oslo 2016.
  • 22 entries in RI-Opac. Literature Database for the Middle Ages

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personal data
SURNAME France, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Danish businessman, religious historian, art historian, Cistercian researcher and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels