Philippe Buc

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Philippe Buc (* 1961 in Paris ) is a French-American historian .

Philippe Buc attended the École Active Bilingue high school in Paris until 1977 and passed the mathematics and science A-levels. From 1978 to June 1981 he completed an undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History. From 1981 to 1983 he studied medieval history at the Université de Paris I Sorbonne . From 1983 to 1984 he completed military service as an assistant in history and geography at the French Naval Academy. From 1984 to 1989, Buc studied history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . From 1985 to June 1987 he completed a graduate school in Medieval History at the University of California . In Berkeley he studied with Gerard E. Caspary, among others . He dedicated his book Holy War, Martyrerdom and Terror (2015) to the memory of Caspary . In 1988 he did a Masters in History. Buc received his doctorate in history with the dissertation Potestas: prince, pouvoir, et peuple dans les commentaires de la Bible (Paris et France du Nord, 1100-1330) . Buc taught as Assistant Professor in Medieval History (1990 to 1997), Associate Professor in Medieval History (1997 to 2003) and Professor in Medieval History (2003 to 2011) at Stanford University . In 2004 he was visiting professor at Heidelberg University . Since September 2011 he has been teaching as professor for history of the High and Late Middle Ages at the University of Vienna . Buc is a French citizen and has been an American since 2011.

His research interests are religion and politics between late antiquity and the Middle Ages , religious violence (terror, holy war and martyrdom) in the European Middle Ages, biblical exegesis and politics, medieval historiography and historiography as well as revolutions (e.g. the Pataria and the Hussites ) . The research for his book Holy War. Violence in the name of Christianity began in 2001/02 and ended in 2009. The focus of the study is the question “to what extent Christianity [...] has left its mark on violence”. The study period spans “two millennia of Christian and post-Christian violence in the western world”. In doing so, Buc proves that certain Christian forms of thinking still contribute to the explanation of violence and wars.

Fonts

  • The dangers of ritual. Between early medieval texts and social scientific theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001, ISBN 0-691-01604-6 .
  • L'ambiguïté du livre. Prince, pouvoir, et peuple dans les commentaires de la Bible au Moyen Age (= Théologie historique. Volume 95). Beauchesne, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7010-1298-8 .
  • Holy War, Martyrdom and Terror: Christianity, Violence and the West . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2015, ISBN 978-0-8122-4685-8 .
    • German by Michael Haupt: Holy War. Violence in the Name of Christianity. von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8053-4927-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Philippe Buc: Holy War. Violence in the Name of Christianity. Darmstadt 2015, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Philippe Buc: Holy War. Violence in the Name of Christianity. Darmstadt 2015, p. 432.
  3. ↑ Philippe Buc: Holy War. Violence in the Name of Christianity. Darmstadt 2015, p. 7f.
  4. ↑ Philippe Buc: Holy War. Violence in the Name of Christianity. Darmstadt 2015, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Philippe Buc: Holy War. Violence in the Name of Christianity. Darmstadt 2015, p. 9.
  6. ↑ See the reviews of Dirk Fleischer in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 64, 2016, p. 430 f .; Tim Weitzel in: Journal for Historical Research 45, 2018, pp. 100-102 ( online )
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SURNAME Buc, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris