Michel Balard

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Michel Balard (born March 30, 1936 in Sucy-en-Brie ) is a French historian with a focus on the medieval history of the Eastern Mediterranean .

Live and act

Balard passed his baccalaureate in 1953. From 1955 he studied at the Sorbonne , where he obtained his license in history in 1957 and his Diplôme d'Études supérieures d'Histoire in 1958. From 1959 he taught at the Lycée in Melun . From 1960 to 1962 he did military service, only to return to his previous place of employment until 1965.

In 1965 he graduated from the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and did research from 1965 to 1968 at the École française de Rome . 1968-1976 he was assistant at the Sorbonne, then Maître-assistant at the University of Paris I . In 1976 he submitted his doctoral thesis entitled La Romanie génoise (XIIe - début du XVe siècle) .

In the same year he was appointed professor at the University of Reims . In 1991 he moved to Paris and taught at the University of Paris I until his retirement .

As emeritus , he is now director of the Hachette Supérieur collections , primarily in charge of the HU Histoire collection and the publication of several volumes in the Carré Histoire collection . He also became President of the Société Historique et Archéologique de Sucy-en-Brie and the Fédération des sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris .

His main research interests are the Crusades and the colonization of the Eastern Mediterranean from the 11th to the 15th centuries. His research dealt mainly with trade and the political and cultural institutions in particular in the Holy Land , Cyprus , Syria and the Byzantine Empire , as well as intensively with the Republic of Genoa and its role as far as Central Asia. He also edited sources, especially around Genoa.

Publications (selection)

  • Les Génois en Romanie entre 1204 et 1261. Recherches dans les minutiers notariaux génois , in: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome 78 (1966) 467-502.
  • Remarques sur les esclaves à Gênes dans la seconde moitié du XIIIe siècle , in: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome 80 (1968) 627-680.
  • Gênes et l'Outre-Mer , vol. 2: Les actes de Kilia du notaire Antonio di Ponzo, 1360 , Paris 1980.
  • Bibliographie de l'histoire médiévale en France (1965–1990) , Paris 1992.
  • Le Moyen Age , in: François Bédarida (ed.): L'histoire et le métier d'historien en France 1945–1995 , Paris 1995, pp. 235–240.
  • Autour de la Première Croisade , Paris 1996.
  • Croisades et Orient latin XIe – XIVe siècle , Paris 2001.
  • with Michel Rouche and Jean-Philippe Genet : Le Moyen Âge en Occident , Paris, 5th edition 2011.
  • La Méditerranée médiévale. Espaces, itinéraires et comptoirs , Paris 2006.
  • Les Latins en Orient XIe – XVe siècle , Paris 2006 (further edition: Paris 2015).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Michel Balard: La Romanie génoise (XIIe – début du XVe siècle) , Paris 1976 (thèse d'État), 2 vols., Rome 1978.
  2. ^ Michel Balard: Byzance et les régions septentrionales de la mer Noire (XIII – XVe siècles) , in: Revue Historique 116 (1992) 19–38.
  3. ^ For example Michel Balard: Les Génois en Crimée aux XIIIe - XIVe siècles , in: Archeion Pontou 35 (1979) 201-218; The Genoese in the Aegean (1204–1566) , in: Benjamin Arbel , Bernard Hamilton, David Jacoby (eds.): Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. Twelve papers given at the Joint Meeting of the XXII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies and of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East , University of Nottingham, 26-29 March 1988, London 1989, pp. 158-174 or The Black Sea in the international Trade of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries , in : Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Vol. 1, Sofia 2011, pp. 441-450.
  4. ↑ Michel Balard (ed.): Gênes et l'Outre-Mer , vol. 1: Les actes de Caffa du notaire Lamberto di Sambuceto, 1289-1290 , Paris 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Balard, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Sucy-en-Brie