Philippe Contamine

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Philippe Contamine (2016)

Philippe Contamine (born May 7, 1932 in Metz ) is a French medieval historian who specializes in military history and nobles .

Philippe Contamine studied history. From 1965 to 1973 he taught at the University of Nancy , later in Paris-Nanterre , before he was appointed to the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1989 . He became known in the professional world through his work War in the Middle Ages from 1980 and his work on the history of the state and nobility in medieval France.

He was president of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , the Société de l'histoire de France and the Société des antiquaires de France . He is a member of the Legion of Honor , the Royal Historical Society and the Academia Europaea . In 2002 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . Contamine was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam in 2010 . He was honored for his outstanding scientific life's work in the fields of medieval military, aristocratic and state history.

Fonts

  • Guerre, État et société à la fin du Moyen Âge. Études sur les armées des rois de France, 1337-1494 (doctoral thesis, 1972)
  • La vie quotidienne pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, France et Angleterre (XIV siècle) , Paris 1976 ( La vie quotidienne ).
  • La Guerre au Moyen-Âge , 1980, reprint: Presses universitaires de France, 1999.
  • La noblesse au royaume de France, de Philippe le Bel à Louis XII. Essai de synthèse , Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
  • with Olivier Guyotjeannin, Régine Le Jan (ed.): Histoire de la France politique , Vol. I: Le Moyen Âge, 481–1514, le roi, l'Église, les grands, le peuple , Seuil, 2006.

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SURNAME Contamine, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medieval historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz